[amsat-bb] Re: help with wisp

Eric Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Tue Nov 4 08:57:20 PST 2008


There is actually a piece of open-source software out there that was
similar to WiSP, I think.  I found it while looking for something else a
few weeks ago and haven't done any investigation on it.

Check out PACSAT tools at http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/ and please let me
know how you make out with it.

73,
Eric W4OTN


On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 08:41 -0800, laura halliday wrote:
> Gordon wrote about WiSP and some other programs:
> 
> > Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available.  I
> > don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is
> > closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another
> > piece of closed-source software.
> 
> If you see a need, start writing. This software doesn't appear
> magically, out of nowhere. Somebody has to write it. Why can't
> that somebody be you?
> 
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