[amsat-bb] Satellite timing question.

B J va6bmj at gmail.com
Wed May 11 02:27:40 UTC 2016


On 5/10/16, Jason Rearick <jbr13 at md.metrocast.net> wrote:
> I started working sats about a month ago, and would get some good passes
> after 2100Z, once I got home.  Now the birds are not hitting my area in that
> time frame much, how long is a cycle for the satellites to get back into my
> evening EST window?

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Do you use any satellite tracking software?  Programs such as Gpredict
(which runs on *nix machines) show the path and footprint of a given
bird and can display when future passes will occur for your QTH.

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL


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