A few minor nit-picks about the AMSAT Status webpage
Nothing major, just a few small nitpicky items I noticed while developing my App for the AMSAT Status webpage. The first is that the quarter hours are not perfectly equal. That they are listed as:
:00-15 :16-30 :31-45 :46-59
I popped out because it didn't quite align with my time-picker widget that goes 0, 15, 30, 45. The minutes should really be either:
00-14 15-29 30-44 45-59
Or:
01-15 16-30 31-45 46-00
If they are all perfectly 15 minutes long. My widget automatically selects the current quarter hour when it's loaded. Though, it is a pretty minor issue.
The other item I would like to see changed is the return of a test satellite or two. There used to be AO-98 and AO-99, I believe, before those numbers became real satellites that were advertised as being for testing purposes. It would be nice to have something I could put in there for testing that would also be select-able from the AMSAT API at /status/api/v1/sat_info.php that I could use to provide automated testing of my App. It doesn't necessarily have to show on the main page as long as I can pull it back down through the API so I can automate release testing whenever I provide an update.
Thanks for providing this great service!
73s, -Loren K7IW
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Loren M. Lang