Orbitron question????
Hi all, I am setting up a satellite station and have been playing with Orbitron for awhile. I like the program allot due to it's being so easy to use. One thing I have not figured out yet is...
When a new satellite is launched, such as the RAFT satellite, where do I find it in the program? Under Amateur, Special-interest, Science, ect.... TLE's???
Is it designated a specific category until it goes into it's final TLE??
I hope this makes sense to somebody besides me:-)
BTW.... I get my updates from Spacetrak
Thanks, RoD KD0XX
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, A TRUE friend will be sitting next to you saying.....
"DAMN THAT WAS FUN"
You can find the new sats to include RAFT, ANDE, and the shuttle when it's up under "New TLE" -
On 1/6/07, Stargate stargatesg1@verizon.net wrote:
Hi all, I am setting up a satellite station and have been playing with Orbitron for awhile. I like the program allot due to it's being so easy to use. One thing I have not figured out yet is...
When a new satellite is launched, such as the RAFT satellite, wheredo I find it in the program? Under Amateur, Special-interest, Science, ect.... TLE's???
Is it designated a specific category until it goes into it's final TLE??
I hope this makes sense to somebody besides me:-)
BTW.... I get my updates from Spacetrak
Thanks, RoD KD0XX
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, A TRUE friend will be sitting next to you saying.....
"DAMN THAT WAS FUN"
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You can find the new sats to include RAFT, ANDE, and the shuttle when it's up under "New TLE" -
As of today, on the CELESTRACK.COM data base, ANDE, RAFT and FCAL have all been moved to the AMATEUR.TXT file grouping. With PCSAT-1 in a similar orbit (for now), they are all on the same frequency, 145.825 and they are all coming over during mostly working hours starting at sunrise. PCSAT-1 is strongest, ANDE is significantly weaker. Last is RAFT which needs a full size array to hear it and then only at high elevations.
RAFT will speak any APRS messages addressed to TALK, if the voice synthesizer is activated by anyone in the footprint by a CONNECT REQUEST. It will remain activated for 5 minutes.
All three satellites digipeat the usual APRS aliases of APRSAT and ARISS.
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
Bob Bruninga, Wb4APR Naval Academy Satellite Lab
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