Gentlemen, Scholars and Sky Commanders,
I have a rather perplexing issue with tracking AO-91.
I have been enjoying Satellites since the RS series, and I earned the Amsat Achievement Award. So, I'm not a "noobee"
I have been trying to copy AO-91 since she was launched using HRD sat tracker, with no success. It passes overhead, EL94MS, roughly the same time everyday, and have never heard it. Today, doubting HRD, I ran Amsat satellite tracking Web based tracker alongside HRD and AmsatDroid on my phone. I showed me HRD was "lagging" behind Amsat tracking by a full 3 minutes !! My "keps" are current, clock is "synched". As you all know, 3 minutes is a "lifetime" in satellite tracking. Amsat Web and Amsat Droid were "synched", probably using the same data set. WHO IS RIGHT ?
I guess I'll set up another laptop and run SatPC32 and "pull" from some other Web trackers. I'm confined to trying to Listen for now. As You all know "If Ya can't hear Em, Ya can't work Em". Geezee, Am I showing My age.
Best to You all "functioning Brains" out there. ESPECIALLY, the "Fox" Team. Thanks for a great Bird.
Francis - De.. WB1FXX
Hi Francis,
Try track with http://amsat.org.ar/pass don't need to update Keps.
Hope you success and luck with the fantastic AO-91.
73, LU7ABF, Pedro
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Francis Geraci [email protected] wrote:
Gentlemen, Scholars and Sky Commanders,
I have a rather perplexing issue with tracking AO-91.
I have been enjoying Satellites since the RS series, and I earned the Amsat Achievement Award. So, I'm not a "noobee"
I have been trying to copy AO-91 since she was launched using HRD sat tracker, with no success. It passes overhead, EL94MS, roughly the same time everyday, and have never heard it. Today, doubting HRD, I ran Amsat satellite tracking Web based tracker alongside HRD and AmsatDroid on my phone. I showed me HRD was "lagging" behind Amsat tracking by a full 3 minutes !! My "keps" are current, clock is "synched". As you all know, 3 minutes is a "lifetime" in satellite tracking. Amsat Web and Amsat Droid were "synched", probably using the same data set. WHO IS RIGHT ?
I guess I'll set up another laptop and run SatPC32 and "pull" from some other Web trackers. I'm confined to trying to Listen for now. As You all know "If Ya can't hear Em, Ya can't work Em". Geezee, Am I showing My age.
Best to You all "functioning Brains" out there. ESPECIALLY, the "Fox" Team. Thanks for a great Bird.
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Was there not an "object" number change a couple weeks back? Is it possible that the HRD setup is using the original object # and not the actual one.
73, Bob, WB4SON
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Pedro Converso [email protected] wrote:
Hi Francis,
Try track with http://amsat.org.ar/pass don't need to update Keps.
Hope you success and luck with the fantastic AO-91.
73, LU7ABF, Pedro
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Francis Geraci [email protected] wrote:
Gentlemen, Scholars and Sky Commanders,
I have a rather perplexing issue with tracking AO-91.
I have been enjoying Satellites since the RS series, and I earned the
Amsat
Achievement Award. So, I'm not a "noobee"
I have been trying to copy AO-91 since she was launched using HRD sat tracker, with no success. It passes overhead, EL94MS, roughly the same
time
everyday, and have never heard it. Today, doubting HRD, I ran Amsat satellite tracking Web based tracker alongside HRD and AmsatDroid on my phone. I showed me HRD was "lagging" behind Amsat tracking by a full 3 minutes !! My "keps" are current, clock is "synched". As you all know, 3 minutes is a "lifetime" in satellite tracking. Amsat Web and Amsat Droid were "synched", probably using the same data set. WHO IS RIGHT ?
I guess I'll set up another laptop and run SatPC32 and "pull" from some other Web trackers. I'm confined to trying to Listen for now. As You all know "If Ya can't hear Em, Ya can't work Em". Geezee, Am I showing My
age.
Best to You all "functioning Brains" out there. ESPECIALLY, the "Fox"
Team.
Thanks for a great Bird.
Francis - De.. WB1FXX _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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Quoting Francis Geraci who wrote on Sun 2017-12-17 at 16:12:
minutes !! My "keps" are current, clock is "synched". As you all know, 3 minutes is a "lifetime" in satellite tracking. Amsat Web and Amsat Droid were "synched", probably using the same data set. WHO IS RIGHT ?
The last knowledge I saw shared is that AO-91 is Norad object #43017 which I got from http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2017-November/065630.html
Before that prior knowledge was that it was object #43016, so things changed.
I have had my own issues in gpredict of newly launched objects changing not being updated, so this is not a complete surprise to me on a new object.
Koos PE4KH
Yep, that's happened to me as well. I had to dive deep into gpredict's database and remove the file for the old satellite number. Re-update from network, and it should fetch the right info. I think what happens is that the change in satellite number is not updated in the file, so it continues to reference the TLE info from before the change. If the surgical approach doesn't work, you can just remove (rename for safe keeping) the entire satdata directory and refetch everything anew.
On my OpenSuSE Leap system, it's all stored under ~/.config/Gpredict/satdata
Greg KO6TH
Koos van den Hout wrote:
I have had my own issues in gpredict of newly launched objects changing not being updated, so this is not a complete surprise to me on a new object.
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