The recent thread on "easy satellite prediction" led me to resurrect a project I started last spring: a satellite prediction program that will run on a mobile phone called "SATme".

I have a beta version on my local computer that is free for anyone to download. I am particularly interested in who can and can't get the program to run on his or her device. This tends to be a device- and carrier-specific process, but I would like to collect some data so that I can come up with a relatively trouble-free method of deployment for the greatest number of people. Eg, I'm looking for what problems people had when installing and how they worked around it if they could. Anyone on the Sprint network should be able to download it with their phone's browser, provided that their phone meets the device requirements. I don't know about other carriers, but it should be a similar process to installing a game.

Here's the download page, which has links to the device requirements and screenshots of SATme running on a few different models. Since this isn't yet running on a full time server, it may dissappear occasionally as the computer needs to free up some memory for other things. Be patient with the website since it wasn't designed as a webserver!

http://74.74.189.168:8084/SATme/

I would prefer to have any correspondance regarding this project by direct email so that we don't tie up the reflector, so please be careful when hitting the "reply" button. I haven't yet decieded on what license terms I'll release it, etc, but this is an invitation for anyone who is interested to give it a try.

Andy K0SM