I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
If you have an Android phone go for the ISS Detector app. It displays only the sats you want to follow and gives you skeds for days in advance. Plus it will give an alarm when the next pass is coming up. I use it when I walk around the house so I won't miss any pass (I tend to get caught up in other stuff and forget to look at the clock).
I know it's not PC based, but it's worth considering.
Hans
BX2ABT
On 04/23/2019 12:28 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Hello Les,
the latest release of Gpredict [1] seems to have a Windows executable [2]. I do not know if it runs on Win10 but it is worth a try.
73 de SV1LJJ Apostolos
[1] http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/ [2] https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict -win32-2.2.1.zip
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 23:28 -0500, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
The tool within SatPC32 that you have been using works perfectly well *IF* you set it up correctly. There is a setting for minimum elevation for the pass. You should set that no higher than 1, or it will filter out perfectly good passes that simply aren’t high enough to meet the threshold.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:22 Apostolos Kefalas via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello Les,
the latest release of Gpredict [1] seems to have a Windows executable [2]. I do not know if it runs on Win10 but it is worth a try.
73 de SV1LJJ Apostolos
[1] http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/ [2] https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict -win32-2.2.1.zip https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict-win32-2.2.1.zip
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 23:28 -0500, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Hello Apostolous,
YES!, the windows executable of Gpredic works nicely on W10.
73, lu7abf, Pedro
On 4/23/19, Mark D. Johns via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
The tool within SatPC32 that you have been using works perfectly well *IF* you set it up correctly. There is a setting for minimum elevation for the pass. You should set that no higher than 1, or it will filter out perfectly good passes that simply aren’t high enough to meet the threshold.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:22 Apostolos Kefalas via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello Les,
the latest release of Gpredict [1] seems to have a Windows executable [2]. I do not know if it runs on Win10 but it is worth a try.
73 de SV1LJJ Apostolos
[1] http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/ [2] https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict -win32-2.2.1.zip https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict-win32-2.2.1.zip
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 23:28 -0500, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Go to the programs tab and run WinAOS, select the satellites you wish, and you’ll have what you are looking for.
73, Drew KO4MA
On Apr 22, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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WinAOS is my preferred method when in the shack or printing on paper to take along with me. On my iPhone, I can easily recommend the free app SatSat. It's quick and easy to use, can see a couple days of passes for a bird with a touch. Virtually no configuration needed...just add the sats you want. Nice feature--calendar reminder for upcoming passes!
Mark N8MH
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:55 AM Andrew Glasbrenner via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Go to the programs tab and run WinAOS, select the satellites you wish, and you’ll have what you are looking for.
73, Drew KO4MA
On Apr 22, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB <
[email protected]> wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly
made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the
“Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per
day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour
apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help
me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back
to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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No worries. I still made a contact on that pass and you are able to fix something on your end to help you work more passes. It’s a win-win for both of us.
Jeff WE4B
On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Another option is to use satmatch.com.
By modifing the URL you can get all of the passes between 2 locations for a number of satellites, example:
https://www.satmatch.com/satellite/SO-50,AO-91,AO-92,CAS-4B,XW-2A/obs1/DM01/...
Add/change the satellite names as needed, change the grid squares, more western is 1st, and set date & duration as required.
There is a GUI available, but I find it is easier to do manually; at least for me.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 09:14 Jeff Johns via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
No worries. I still made a contact on that pass and you are able to fix something on your end to help you work more passes. It’s a win-win for both of us.
Jeff WE4B
On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB <
[email protected]> wrote:
I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly
made a series of newbie mistakes.
Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the
“Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were coming up at my location.
Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes per
day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has disappeared from view.
In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an hour
apart, but only knew about the first one.
Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to help
me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna back
to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710. DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
Thanks Jeff for your patience.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Pedro Converso