I have put togther a little page that shows the last hour of ISS traffic on a map and some recent data http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/iss_track3.cgi refresh is 60 seconds

Nice project.

Probably due to my being on the other side of the world, but it took over 2 minutes for the map to be drawn (I am on a very high bandwidth network at work)... So there is a bottleneck somewhere.

You could probably greatly speed things up if it was a lower resolution map? It appears that the one you are using is a 244K image. Whereas the map from FINDU (www.ariss.net) loads in about one second and is only a 15k map.

But your site shold be much faster for people in your hemisphere I would think... ?

Bob

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Andrew Rich VK4TEC

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Rich" vk4tec@people.net.au To: "Amsat-Bb@Amsat. Org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:25 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS

I have put togther a little page that shows the last hour of ISS traffic on a map and some recent data

http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/iss_track3.cgi

refresh is 60 seconds

Looks very nice Andrew, only problem is the load time. It takes 2-3min to load the page.

Im on a 20Mbps connection here in Denmark.

Regards Brian OZ1SKY/5P22U