[amsat-bb] Re: HB9DRV

[Joseph Armbruster]

This thread really spiraled out in all sorts of directions!

Anyhow, I have developed both OSS and commercial software.  All I will say
is you don't have to look very far to find utter crap or really good stuff
in both worlds.

Dave Marhous' - What's your objective?  Do you want a library to do your own
thing?

If so, it may be worth taking a stab at some of these.  I have a little bit
of experience with all of them, so if you have any questions, fire away!

- If you're interested in writing your own tracking app in C, check out
xephem (OSS)

- If you're interested in doing some tracking-scripting, there's a python
wrapper called PyEphem, it's great and also OSS.  See a brief blog post I
did on it:
http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-is-my-satellite-in-python.html

- If you're interested in writing your own tracking app in JAVA, check out
JSatTrack (OSS).  Ganos library is very easy to use!  I am using it in an
Android app I am writing.


If you (or anyone else) has questions, feel free to fire them off.  I hope
this helps!

Joseph Armbruster
KJ4JIO


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Michael Schulz
<mschulz at creative-chaos.com>wrote:

>
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Gary Joe Mayfield wrote:
>
> > What's so wrong with Simon making a buck as the result of his hard
> work???
> >
> > 73,
> > Joe kk0sd
>
> Nothing, but that's not what the discussion is about ...
>
> Mike
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