[amsat-bb] Re: thought for a neat product, anyone seen one?

[Alan]

At 10:14 PM 11/23/2008, Eric Fort wrote:
>I just thought of kind of a neat product for those of us that work sats.
>Has anyone seen anything similar?  I have an ft-817 which has a cat 
>interface and will operate both ssb and fm.  Has anyone seen a little 
>box that would adjust the radio frequency for both uplink and downlink 
>while displaying azmuth and elevation data?  It seems that it would be 
>handy to have the frequency control take care of itself while providing 
>data as to where I should point the arrow.  What do those reading this 
>idea think of it?  It would seem to me to be quite useful especially for
ssb.
>
>Eric
>AF6EP

Hi Eric,

http://picasaweb.google.com/ve4yz.alan/TrakboxRebuild2004#

1990's TrakBox requires computer with serial port to program KEPS into it,
but then can run Doppler and a rotator.  Displays AZ/EL of pass. 

http://www.bigfattail.com/software/pocketsatplus/   freeware or register it.

PocketSat can be run on a $10 surplus Palm and will show graphically
elevation and direction of a pass.

73, Alan VE4YZ
EN19kw
AMSAT LM 2352