[amsat-bb] Re: Orbitron Warning DO NOT UPDATE KEPS!!!!!

[Larry Teran]

I just updated my TLE from Orbitron site as usual and is working properly I
have been using Orbitron on WIN7 more then a year ago with no problem.
73's Larry KI6YAA

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Floyd Rodgers <kc5qbc at swbell.net> wrote:

> Oh swell. It also works for Xp users as well. *It is not limited to Win7.
> I would suggest not doing kep updates until this gets resolved!!
> *All the txt files for keps updates are still here but have not much
> useable data within and all have timestamps of when the last update was
> done. Possibly a formatting issue with celestrak since that is the source I
> update from. Is anyone using stoff.pl or space-trak and seeing similar
> problems?
>
> On 5/6/2012 3:09 PM, K4FEG wrote:
>
>> WARNING ORBITRON USERS!
>> It may be something that I did, I am not sure, But I run Windows 7
>> operating system and I downloaded my TLE files from the stoff.pl web
>> site and there is no data in the file, it wiped out my existing data and
>> the other TLE file sources (celestrak)  do not sync properly with Windows 7.
>>
>> Orbitron is now not functioning on my Windows 7 based computer.
>> If one of you nice folks have a solution for me email me direct no need
>> to clutter the bulletin board.
>>
>> Myself and another local ham have verified that it is the combination of
>> Windows 7 and the stoff.pl TLE file.
>>
>> I am going to also email stoff to tell him about this problem.
>>
>> Be careful out there!
>>
>> K4FEG
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