[amsat-bb] Re: Keps for funcube, is N2YO App Correct?

[David Palmer KB5WIA]

Real quick also -- can someone verify that the N2YO applet showing on
the warehouse.funcube.org.uk site is reporting accurate positions?

I've been running the downloaded keps and my home station has been
tracking / decoding just fine, along with nice S9+ audio with AOS and
LOS matching expected as per the published keps ... but the N2YO app
seems to show the FUNcube in a totally different location.  It's been
looking to me like the keps used on the app might not be correct.

73!

Dave KB5WIA / CM88


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:20 AM, James Luhn <luhn at wt.net> wrote:
> I have just about lost my mind trying to get SatPC32 to track FUNcube-1.  I
> just put in the follow keps off of the n2yo page:
>
>
> *Two Line Element Set (TLE):*
>
> 1 99991U 00000   13325.30964218  .00000000  00000-0  10000-4 0     7
> 2 99991  97.7992  38.2578 0062122 196.7894 338.6768 14.77349691 03
>
>
> N2YO shows funcube over UK and I show it down by South America.  What in the
> hell am I doing wrong?  I set up a separate group to experiment with getting
> the program to work properly with FUNcube.  Initially
> I used the preliminary keps and everything worked terrific.  I copied
> FUNcube with a terrific signal.  I put the new keps in and it all went to
> hell.  When I put the prelim keps back in, it is still not correct.
> I double checked to see if my location is correct.  I am tracking FO-29 just
> fine.  Everything seems to work EXCEPT Funcube.
>
> Geesh a pete, I am as confused as the little boy who lost his bubble gum in
> a chicken yard.
>
> 73,
> -james
> W5AOO
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