Re: [amsat-bb] NOVA and Windows 10
Hi Scott,
Let's get Nova running first. The satellites are out of date because it's loading the Kep file from when the program was written.
To update the Keps, save the page from here: https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/nasa.all. Save this as a text file to somewhere useful like the desk top. This will give you a file called nasa.all.txt. Nova is a bit picky about the format of the Kep files. To get this correct: Rename this to remove the first dot and all (nasa.txt). Open the file (Notepad) and delete the packet header up to the blank line above AO7. The remove the /EX from the end of the file and save the modified file.
From the Kep. Elements menu, select "Disk file update" and "Manual update
from file" This should bring up a screen "Update Keplerian Elements" . Click on "Update" and you should then be able to navigate to nasa.txt. (Change the drop down box from DATA Files to Text files). That should update the satellites for you.
If you go into "Views", "Configure the current view" and select the "Observers" tab, you will see a "Set up Observers" button. Select this and you should be able to set your location.
Let me know if this works OK.
73, Terry ZL2BAC
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Millick Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 4:23 PM To: Wendy and Terry Osborne Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Nova with Windows 10
Problem I have I can get it running but the satellites are out of date Having a lot of problems with satpc I got it running but no matter set for observer (I live in Illinois USA) it puts me in California and jave yet to figure it out I am just looking to display my choice of satellites and when they hit my footprint show it to me. When I had my satitllite antennas I use it to control my Yaesu rotors thanks
At 09:49 PM 9/8/2019, you wrote:
Hi Folks, Following a query from Scott on this bb, I like Nova and so I decided that I would investigate. I managed to install Windows 10 on my old Toshiba laptop. I found that it didn't like big capacity USB sticks (again). NOVA: See: https://www.nlsa.com/ If I installed Nova from the setup.exe, the program would run quite happily. I then tried installing the patch.exe and got this error message. “Exception ERegistryException in module NfW32.exe at 0007B3EA. Failed to set data for â€. †Deleting and reinstalling setup.exe with the repair option, fixed the error and it now runs OK. This may help other people who have had this problem, see: https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-April/067601.html 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Instead of downloading nasa.all and editing it, you can download nasabare.txt instead. The latter is exactly the same as nasa.all with the edits being suggested. That way you just need to rename, and not edit.
Martin. KD6YAM
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:35 PM Wendy and Terry Osborne via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Hi Scott,
Let's get Nova running first. The satellites are out of date because it's loading the Kep file from when the program was written.
To update the Keps, save the page from here: https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/nasa.all. Save this as a text file to somewhere useful like the desk top. This will give you a file called nasa.all.txt. Nova is a bit picky about the format of the Kep files. To get this correct: Rename this to remove the first dot and all (nasa.txt). Open the file (Notepad) and delete the packet header up to the blank line above AO7. The remove the /EX from the end of the file and save the modified file.
From the Kep. Elements menu, select "Disk file update" and "Manual update from file" This should bring up a screen "Update Keplerian Elements" . Click on "Update" and you should then be able to navigate to nasa.txt. (Change the drop down box from DATA Files to Text files). That should update the satellites for you.
If you go into "Views", "Configure the current view" and select the "Observers" tab, you will see a "Set up Observers" button. Select this and you should be able to set your location.
Let me know if this works OK.
73, Terry ZL2BAC
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Millick Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 4:23 PM To: Wendy and Terry Osborne Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Nova with Windows 10
Problem I have I can get it running but the satellites are out of date Having a lot of problems with satpc I got it running but no matter set for observer (I live in Illinois USA) it puts me in California and jave yet to figure it out I am just looking to display my choice of satellites and when they hit my footprint show it to me. When I had my satitllite antennas I use it to control my Yaesu rotors thanks
At 09:49 PM 9/8/2019, you wrote:
Hi Folks, Following a query from Scott on this bb, I like Nova and so I decided that I would investigate. I managed to install Windows 10 on my
old
Toshiba laptop. I found that it didn't like big capacity USB sticks (again). NOVA: See: https://www.nlsa.com/ If I installed Nova from the setup.exe, the program would run quite happily. I then tried installing
the
patch.exe and got this error message. “Exception ERegistryException in module NfW32.exe at 0007B3EA. Failed to set data for †. †Deleting
and
reinstalling setup.exe with the repair option, fixed the error and it now runs OK. This may help other people who have had this problem, see: https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-April/067601.html 73,
Terry
Osborne ZL2BAC _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the
amateur
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Instead of downloading nasa.all and editing it, you can download nasabare.txt instead. The latter is exactly the same as nasa.all with the edits being suggested. That way you just need to rename, and not edit.
Nova also downloads KEPS files from the internet without needing to create/edit a file.
In the Nova main window click on Kep. Elements Internet Update Configure Download
In the configure window that opens: Fill in 'Download To:' with where you want to store the download on your local machine. (I just put it on my Desktop)
Fill in Remote URL: www.amsat.org Remote files: Click on the 'Edit the file list' icon to the right of the data window.
When the file list opens uncheck all of the existing options since those files don't seem useful to retrieving amsat keps.
Then you might need to use either Add, or Replace to enter amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt
Then save the changes with the Nova OK buttons in the layers of these menus you just negotiated through.
Try the Kep. Elements -> Internet Update -> Start Download
I've found that Nova running in true windows OS fashion may require to stop/restart the program so don't be surprised.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
I concur with JoAnne's write-up. In my case, and this applies to all my laptops, I have had to open nasabare.txt in Wordpad and change the font size so all lines are on single lines and not split up.Only then did Nova import the nasabare.txt correctly without complaining. Not sure if anybody else had the same issues, just passing it along.
Love Nova for the excellent graphics. Reading through the manual to learn all that is under the hood is a must!
73, Adrian AA5UK
On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 11:28:46 AM CDT, JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Instead of downloading nasa.all and editing it, you can download nasabare.txt instead. The latter is exactly the same as nasa.all with the edits being suggested. That way you just need to rename, and not edit.
Nova also downloads KEPS files from the internet without needing to create/edit a file.
In the Nova main window click on Kep. Elements Internet Update Configure Download
In the configure window that opens: Fill in 'Download To:' with where you want to store the download on your local machine. (I just put it on my Desktop)
Fill in Remote URL: www.amsat.org Remote files: Click on the 'Edit the file list' icon to the right of the data window.
When the file list opens uncheck all of the existing options since those files don't seem useful to retrieving amsat keps.
Then you might need to use either Add, or Replace to enter amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt
Then save the changes with the Nova OK buttons in the layers of these menus you just negotiated through.
Try the Kep. Elements -> Internet Update -> Start Download
I've found that Nova running in true windows OS fashion may require to stop/restart the program so don't be surprised.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
_______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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