[amsat-bb] Re: Linux Satellite Tracking

[Alexandru Csete]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:08:18 -0400
"William Liporace - NA2NA" <will-na2na at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> I have been looking for some thing that will control the rotor & the
> radio. I have the TS-790 & the ARRL SatTracker 688 controller....
> Still do not have one program to do both (Linux or Windows). Have not
> looked at it lately either :-)
> 

Will,

I expect to add Doppler tuning and rotor control in the next version of
gpredict. I expect to use the Ham Radio Control Libraries
(http://hamlib.sf.net) as backend driver, and if the protocol specs for
the ARRL SatTracker 688 controller are available I can add that to
hamlib, too.
Although gpredict is designed and developed under Linux, it is known to
work on most modern desktop environments including Mac OSX and Windows
XP (don't know about Vista).

> Will  WC2L
> 

73
Alex OZ9AEC