[amsat-bb] Re: Still having problems with the new kep format??

[Michael R. Owen]

Perry -

You can tell Nova to keep the satellite names that already exist when 
you update Keps.  It's a check-box in Main Menu/KepElements/Disk file 
update/Manual update from file.

73,
W9IP

Perry Yantis wrote:

>Can anyone tell my why Celestian bbs changed it kep format from something
>simple and easy to use to something that don't work!!!!
>
>Again today I have downloaded the new keps, then in Word Pad deleted the
>satellites I don't want and the +-[] that I don't want and resaved the file.
>
>But once again my sat programs reject these new files.
>
>I may start using the Amsat keps that are in the NASAbare files as these
>are text without extra stuff.
>
>The problem with these keps are the sat names are different from what I
>have in my programs now (nova and Uni-trak) and as a result
>I will have to re enter all the satellites.
>
>As a result I am very ticked off that things were changed that cause all
>these problems.
>
>Why can't the sat keps be simple text files that all use the same names and
>no extra stuff.
>
>This should not be this much of a problem.
>
>Perry WB8OTH
>
>
>Perry Yantis
>pyantis at earthlink.net
>
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Michael R. Owen, Ph.D.
Northern Lights Software Associates
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