Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 13, Issue 212
WinAOS is great to list passes for a given date and Countd is good for field events with a laptop. Both are part of both part of SatPC32.
For hand held activity, I copy predictions form amsat.org into a spreadsheet. Then a macro filters the passes by max elevation and time of day and exports the result as an iCal file. Finally, the iCal file is imported into my Google Calendar. Its a little bit of work once a few month, but it conveniently pings me X minutes before the next pass and don't have to carry printed copies.
There have been other apps and suggestions but found these to be most convenient, after trying several other ones.
73! Umesh K6VUG
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Message: 3 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:51:01 -0400 From: Thomas Schaefer ny4i@ny4i.com To: Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net Cc: AMSAT BB AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Generate times for FD satellite passes Message-ID: B36305B4-BF33-4714-B320-61B945B32CA0@ny4i.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Thanks to all. I forgot about WinAOS.
That might be easier as I can select just the sats I want.
I will ask another question about resetting the saved window position as last time I ran SatPC32, I had 2 monitors.
Thanks,
Tom
Oops, sorry forgot to change the subject line on my last reply. UmeshK6VUG
On Sunday, June 17, 2018, 9:05:24 PM PDT, k6vug@sbcglobal.net k6vug@sbcglobal.net wrote:
WinAOS is great to list passes for a given date and Countd is good for field events with a laptop. Both are part of both part of SatPC32.
For hand held activity, I copy predictions form amsat.org into a spreadsheet. Then a macro filters the passes by max elevation and time of day and exports the result as an iCal file. Finally, the iCal file is imported into my Google Calendar. Its a little bit of work once a few month, but it conveniently pings me X minutes before the next pass and don't have to carry printed copies.
There have been other apps and suggestions but found these to be most convenient, after trying several other ones.
73! Umesh K6VUG
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Message: 3 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:51:01 -0400 From: Thomas Schaefer ny4i@ny4i.com To: Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net Cc: AMSAT BB AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Generate times for FD satellite passes Message-ID: B36305B4-BF33-4714-B320-61B945B32CA0@ny4i.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Thanks to all. I forgot about WinAOS.
That might be easier as I can select just the sats I want.
I will ask another question about resetting the saved window position as last time I ran SatPC32, I had 2 monitors.
Thanks,
Tom
ISS detector does all that automatically.
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-------- Original Message -------- On Jun 17, 2018, 11:05 PM, k6vug@sbcglobal.net wrote:
WinAOS is great to list passes for a given date and Countd is good for field events with a laptop. Both are part of both part of SatPC32.
For hand held activity, I copy predictions form amsat.org into a spreadsheet. Then a macro filters the passes by max elevation and time of day and exports the result as an iCal file. Finally, the iCal file is imported into my Google Calendar. Its a little bit of work once a few month, but it conveniently pings me X minutes before the next pass and don't have to carry printed copies.
There have been other apps and suggestions but found these to be most convenient, after trying several other ones.
73! Umesh K6VUG
Message: 3 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:51:01 -0400 From: Thomas Schaefer ny4i@ny4i.com To: Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net Cc: AMSAT BB AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Generate times for FD satellite passes Message-ID: B36305B4-BF33-4714-B320-61B945B32CA0@ny4i.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Thanks to all. I forgot about WinAOS.
That might be easier as I can select just the sats I want.
I will ask another question about resetting the saved window position as last time I ran SatPC32, I had 2 monitors.
Thanks,
Tom
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