Thanks Mark,

you point out a very good point. Every person that wants to work the sats has to do a little "homework". It is not difficult to read through online help and software menu functions. The same is true for your radio. Browsing the Amsat BB archives for previous Q&As is also a good thing. This is not rocket science but it is also not just plug and play.

Stefan

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Mark L. Hammond [email protected]wrote:

Okay, so here is what I do to help with Keps and SatPC32:

First, get a Space Track account https://www.space-track.org/auth/login

Second, get TLE Retriever 3 working manually. http://www.celestrak.com/SpaceTrack/TLERetriever3Help.asp

Then, use a batch file like this one to combine numerous files into one--and copy to the correct location in SatPC32. You can select amateur3.txt as the source for keps, and the new birds, cubesats, etc. are all in one big file.

I call it updatekeps.bat and have Windows run every nite in the wee hours of the morning as a scheduled event. You can also run the .bat file manually

Edit paths/folders/usernames to match your system!!!!

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cd\Hamstuff\TLERetriever3 TLERetriever3.exe -auto copy "C:\Users\hammond\Documents\My TLEs\CelesTrak\amateur.txt" + "C:\Users\hammond\Documents\My TLEs\CelesTrak\tle-new.txt" + "C:\Users\hammond\Documents\My TLEs\CelesTrak\cubesat.txt" "C:\Users\hammond\Documents\My TLEs\CelesTrak\amateur3.txt"

copy "C:\Users\hammond\Documents\My TLEs\CelesTrak\amateur3.txt" "C:\Program Files\SatPC32 12.7\Kepler" _______________________________

This is not a tutorial and comes with no support. But maybe it will inspire somebody...makes my life easier!

73,

Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]

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