Hi All,

I am an MSc. student starting work on my final dissertation. My dissertation topic is: "A low cost autonomous satellite tracking system". The intention is to build a tracking system with roughly the following specifications:

- PC independent

- microcontroller based

- (car) battery powered

- SGP/SDP tracking algorithms

- Time and position acquisition possible via serial port from GPS receiver

- Transceiver control over serial port

- Tracking HW control loop for Azimuth and Elevation

- Ethernet connection to acquire TLE's - the idea here is to collect TLE's and store them for later mobile/portable use.

To complete my understanding on what is out there I have the following questions:

Which PC based tracking SW are you using?

Which non-PC based tracking SW are you using?

Which PC connected tracking HW are you using?

Which non-PC connected tracking SW/HW are you using?

Are the above specifications sufficient? What else would you suggest?

Thanks for all and any input,

Best 73

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