Good Afternoon, All!
Thank you for all the replies to my question s about satellite names. The immediate solution for me was suggested by Jan, PE0SAT: The Auxiliary file amsatnames.txt allows one to use alternate names. That works, and my apps work like a charm, again.
Just a couple of thoughts: Erich, My issue was that SatPC32 uses the name from the keps for the DDE and the DDE does use a space to delimit data. Greg, Neat thing about human-readable names is that they are human-recognizable, just what I want my program to display while doing it's job. Using the catalogue number would still require a reference to the name. Jan, While looking at the required field for the amsatnames.txt file I remembered reading somewhere about the discussions going on about the TLE structure and their implications for SatPC32 and , no big deal, for my little apps. Changes are "'a comin".
OH! a last question. Why don't I get my own posts to AMSAT-BB? I have not, yet, signed up for the new postman service. Considering the posted problems associated with the change, at first, I thought I would wait till they were solved fearing loosing all the knowledge collected here. Is that the issue?
Thanks. again, everyone. Have a good day. Stay safe, Covid free. 73
Jim Jipping, W8MRR AMSAT 5512 (Low number, old geezer)
Jim and anyone else with the same question: If you do not sign up for the new postman service you continue to get some set of default characteristics to what you had with the OLD postman service. Sometimes these are the same as what you had. Sometimes not. If you sign up, then you get to choose explicitly. In fact there is one selection that says something like "get my own postings" or some such.
Burns WB1FJ
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:01 PM James Jipping jhjipping@gmail.com wrote:
Good Afternoon, All!
Thank you for all the replies to my question s about satellite names. The immediate solution for me was suggested by Jan, PE0SAT: The Auxiliary file amsatnames.txt allows one to use alternate names. That works, and my apps work like a charm, again.
Just a couple of thoughts: Erich, My issue was that SatPC32 uses the name from the keps for the DDE and the DDE does use a space to delimit data. Greg, Neat thing about human-readable names is that they are human-recognizable, just what I want my program to display while doing it's job. Using the catalogue number would still require a reference to the name. Jan, While looking at the required field for the amsatnames.txt file I remembered reading somewhere about the discussions going on about the TLE structure and their implications for SatPC32 and , no big deal, for my little apps. Changes are "'a comin".
OH! a last question. Why don't I get my own posts to AMSAT-BB? I have not, yet, signed up for the new postman service. Considering the posted problems associated with the change, at first, I thought I would wait till they were solved fearing loosing all the knowledge collected here. Is that the issue?
Thanks. again, everyone. Have a good day. Stay safe, Covid free. 73
Jim Jipping, W8MRR AMSAT 5512 (Low number, old geezer)
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