Greetings from Patrick, N2OEQ
I need advice on tracking satellites with a handheld PC ( not pocket PC )
I recently recieved a NEC mobilepro 750c HPC with a MIPS R4000 processor. I downloaded a DOS emulation program and tried running the DOS STSPLUS program. The map took 25 minutes to draw so this is impractical.
Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions, pat
If you don't need the map you can try Predict. It's a text based tracking program -
http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html
While I have not tried the DOS version listed on the web page the Linux version works very well on my Linux based Pocket PC.
Brian - KG4NIQ
On 8/23/06, McGrane tmcgrane@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
Greetings from Patrick, N2OEQ
I need advice on tracking satellites with a handheld PC ( not pocket PC )
I recently recieved a NEC mobilepro 750c HPC with a MIPS R4000 processor. I downloaded a DOS emulation program and tried running the DOS STSPLUS program. The map took 25 minutes to draw so this is impractical.
Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions, pat
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Hi brian and thanks for information. I tried it but the program requires a 386 processor. The DOS emulation program emulates up to a 286. This Handheld PC is an intermediate device between a laptop and a palm type device. It uses a MIPS R4000 64 bit processor at 80 Mhz. The operating system is windows CE Version 2.0.
The help is appreciated! thanks brian, 73, patrick n2oeq
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Brian Brindle wrote:
If you don't need the map you can try Predict. It's a text based tracking program -
http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html
While I have not tried the DOS version listed on the web page the Linux version works very well on my Linux based Pocket PC.
Brian - KG4NIQ
On 8/23/06, McGrane tmcgrane@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
Greetings from Patrick, N2OEQ
I need advice on tracking satellites with a handheld PC ( not pocket PC )
I recently recieved a NEC mobilepro 750c HPC with a MIPS R4000 processor. I downloaded a DOS emulation program and tried running the DOS STSPLUS program. The map took 25 minutes to draw so this is impractical.
Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions, pat
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InstantTrack should work, use the no co-processor version (itncp.exe I think). I started out running this on a 8086 with 640k....
http://www.amsat-na.com/item.php?id=100049
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: "McGrane" tmcgrane@suffolk.lib.ny.us To: "Brian Brindle" bbrindle@gmail.com Cc: "Amsat BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:29 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite tracking on Handheld PC
Hi brian and thanks for information. I tried it but the program requires a 386 processor. The DOS emulation program emulates up to a 286. This Handheld PC is an intermediate device between a laptop and a palm type device. It uses a MIPS R4000 64 bit processor at 80 Mhz. The operating system is windows CE Version 2.0.
The help is appreciated! thanks brian, 73, patrick n2oeq
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Brian Brindle wrote:
If you don't need the map you can try Predict. It's a text based tracking program -
http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html
While I have not tried the DOS version listed on the web page the Linux version works very well on my Linux based Pocket PC.
Brian - KG4NIQ
On 8/23/06, McGrane tmcgrane@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
Greetings from Patrick, N2OEQ
I need advice on tracking satellites with a handheld PC ( not pocket PC )
I recently recieved a NEC mobilepro 750c HPC with a MIPS R4000 processor. I downloaded a DOS emulation program and tried running the DOS STSPLUS program. The map took 25 minutes to draw so this is impractical.
Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions, pat
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At 10:29 AM -0400 8/23/06, McGrane wrote:
Hi brian and thanks for information. I tried it but the program requires a 386 processor. The DOS emulation program emulates up to a 286.
If you can emulate DOS you can run InstantTrack. As the name implies, it's fast. It should be usable under emulation.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/instanttrack
73 -Paul kb5mu@amsat.org
Hi Pat:
I use SatTrack+ with my old iPaq Pocket PC. I don't know if the program will work on yours but there is also a version for Palm... Since it is trial-ware, I'd say try it.
I'm very satisfied with the way it works. I usually check the pass trajectory before I go out (I'm working portable) as I don't want to have to carry more stuff than really needed.
It would be nice if the program alerted you to the time of the pass, but unfortunately, it does not do that. I program my cell phone's scheduler for that and that works best as the cell phone is with me all the time.
McGrane wrote:
Greetings from Patrick, N2OEQ
I need advice on tracking satellites with a handheld PC ( not pocket PC )
I recently recieved a NEC mobilepro 750c HPC with a MIPS R4000 processor. I downloaded a DOS emulation program and tried running the DOS STSPLUS program. The map took 25 minutes to draw so this is impractical.
Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions, pat
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