Greg, Point well taken but for my situation you are wrong.

When I open the file in Notepad it looks just fine. But when I try to import it into Nova it does not like it. It gives me an error.I am just passing this along if it happens to others. This happens on the six computers that I own.The only way, again for my situation,  to fix that, is to open the file in Wordpad, Downgrade to a smaller font size, then re-save the file, then import back to Nova. This works perfectly every time I do it. So issue.

Feel free to open the file in Wordpad and you will see the lines are broken and need to be adjusted. I just tested this at work.

End of topic. Let's move on.

Adrian AA5UK

On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 1:47:07 PM CDT, Greg D ko6th.greg@gmail.com wrote:

One really shouldn't be using wordpad, but rather notepad.  This needs to be a simple text file, and any "formatting" such as font size and so forth will likely mess things up.  That changing the font size made a difference is evidence of this.  A simple text file has no font, and no size.

Greg  KO6TH

Adrian Engele via AMSAT-BB wrote:

I concur with JoAnne's write-up. In my case, and this applies to all my laptops, I have had to open nasabare.txt in Wordpad and change the font size so all lines are on single lines and not split up.Only then did Nova import the nasabare.txt correctly without complaining.   Not sure if anybody else had the same issues, just passing it along.

Love Nova for the excellent graphics. Reading through the manual to learn all that is under the hood is a must!

73,  Adrian AA5UK

On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 11:28:46 AM CDT, JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:

Instead of downloading nasa.all and editing it, you can download

nasabare.txt instead. The latter is exactly the same as nasa.all with the edits being suggested. That way you just need to rename, and not edit.

Nova also downloads KEPS files from the internet without needing to create/edit a file.

In the Nova main window click on   Kep. Elements     Internet Update       Configure Download

In the configure window that opens: Fill in 'Download To:' with where you want to store the download on your local machine. (I just put it on my Desktop)

Fill in Remote URL: www.amsat.org Remote files: Click on the 'Edit the file list' icon to the right of the data window.

When the file list opens uncheck all of the existing options since those files don't seem useful to retrieving amsat keps.

Then you might need to use either Add, or Replace to enter amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt

Then save the changes with the Nova OK buttons in the layers of these menus you just negotiated through.

Try the Kep. Elements -> Internet Update -> Start Download

I've found that Nova running in true windows OS fashion may require to stop/restart the program so don't be surprised.

-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org

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