[amsat-bb] Re: Request cross test of satellite prediction. Thanks

[Justin Pinnix]

Joe,

I used the AMSAT web site to check your numbers (
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/).  Enter the coordinates you
gave and choose "next 30 passes" or so to look ahead into the future.

The first passes of the day seem to be within +- 1 minute of your
predictions for 50, 51, 27, and 16.  ISS is about 4 minutes off, so you
might want to update your keps for that one.

I didn't go beyond the first passes of June 15.  As the textbooks say, that
is an exercise left to the reader.

73 de AJ4MJ

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:49 PM, RFI-EMI-GUY <Rhyolite at nettally.com> wrote:

> Could some kind sole with a trusted program please run some or all of
> the satellites below for the date June 15, 2009
> for the coordinates for Virgin Gorda BVI (listed below) and cross check
> my sample results below?
>
> I am using keps 14 days old.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Location:
>
>  Virgin Gorda British Virgin Islands
>
> Lattitude 18.433, Longitude - 64.416, 12 m AMSL
>
> Radio visibility - Multiple satellite schedule for : Ao-16
>
>       Ao-16, Ao-27, Ao-51, Iss, So-50
>
> +------------------  AOS  ------------------+MAX EL.+ ----- LOS ------ +
>  UTC Date  Time     | Satellite       Azm   | Elev. | Time       Azm   |
> Duration
>  06/15/09  00:58:00 | So-50          313.1° | 21.1° | 01:10:00  183.3°
> |  00:12
>  06/15/09  05:10:00 | Ao-27           67.8° |  3.5° | 05:17:00  125.7°
> |  00:07
>  06/15/09  06:37:00 | Ao-16           48.3° | 12.5° | 06:48:00  150.6°
> |  00:11
>  06/15/09  06:46:00 | Ao-27           12.5° | 86.3° | 07:01:00  192.1°
> |  00:15
>  06/15/09  07:56:00 | Iss            181.1° | 13.0° | 08:04:00   64.5°
> |  00:08
>  06/15/09  08:15:00 | Ao-16          359.7° | 42.1° | 08:29:00  207.0°
> |  00:14
>  06/15/09  08:28:00 | Ao-27          325.0° |  5.3° | 08:37:00  250.9°
> |  00:09
>  06/15/09  09:29:00 | Ao-51           46.7° | 13.6° | 09:40:00  155.2°
> |  00:11
>  06/15/09  09:31:00 | Iss            250.1° | 17.4° | 09:40:00   22.1°
> |  00:09
>  06/15/09  11:06:00 | Ao-51          357.4° | 33.0° | 11:20:00  210.1°
> |  00:14
>  06/15/09  11:43:00 | So-50          146.4° |  6.1° | 11:53:00   61.9°
> |  00:10
>  06/15/09  13:21:00 | So-50          207.6° | 71.1° | 13:36:00   22.2°
> |  00:15
>  06/15/09  15:06:00 | So-50          279.1° |  4.1° | 15:13:00  339.5°
> |  00:07
>
> --
> Joe Leikhim K4SAT
> "The RFI-EMI-GUY"©
>
> "Use only Genuine Interocitor Parts" Tom Servo  ;-P
>
>
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