[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite tracking on Handheld PC

[Andrew Glasbrenner]

InstantTrack should work, use the no co-processor version (itncp.exe I 
think). I started out running this on a 8086 with 640k....

http://www.amsat-na.com/item.php?id=100049

73, Drew KO4MA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McGrane" <tmcgrane@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: "Brian Brindle" <bbrindle@gmail.com>
Cc: "Amsat BB" <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:29 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite tracking on Handheld PC


>
> Hi brian and thanks for information. I tried it but the program requires a
> 386 processor. The DOS emulation program emulates up to a 286. This
> Handheld PC is an intermediate device between a laptop and a palm type
> device. It uses a MIPS R4000 64 bit processor at 80 Mhz. The operating
> system is windows CE Version 2.0.
>
> The help is appreciated! thanks brian, 73, patrick n2oeq
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Brian Brindle wrote:
>
>> If you don't need the map you can try Predict. It's a text based
>> tracking program -
>>
>> http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html
>>
>> While I have not tried the DOS version listed on the web page the
>> Linux version works very well on my Linux based Pocket PC.
>>
>> Brian - KG4NIQ
>>
>>
>> On 8/23/06, McGrane <tmcgrane@suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings from Patrick, N2OEQ
>> >
>> > I need advice on tracking satellites with a handheld PC ( not pocket 
>> > PC )
>> >
>> > I recently recieved a NEC mobilepro 750c HPC with a MIPS R4000 
>> > processor.
>> > I downloaded a DOS emulation program and tried running the DOS STSPLUS
>> > program. The map took 25 minutes to draw so this is impractical.
>> >
>> > Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for your suggestions, pat
>> >
>> >
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