[amsat-bb] Satellite Tracking Engine

[David Kuechenmeister]

Has anyone ever worked with the SGP4 propagator. I saw there was a python package for it at pypi. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sgp4
vy 73,Dave N4KD 

    On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 9:34 PM, Joseph Armbruster <josepharmbruster at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 Dan,

The tracker I wrote depends on pyephem :-)

Joe

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Don Sandstrom <w7vxs at arrl.net> wrote:
> Andrew - If you can use Python, consider the pyephem module. It can predict
> satellite passes, calculate azimuth/elevation, determine eclipse state, etc
> based on TLE data. See http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/tutorial.html.
>
> 73 - Don, W7VXS
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I used to make use of predict using scripts
>>
>> Since then the raspberry pi and arduinos have come along
>>
>> What LINUX satellite tracking program could be queried or send data about
>>
>> Satellite elevation and angle
>>
>> Satellite doppler frequency
>>
>> I want to make a multi satellite radio and rotor control box with auto
>> update keeps
>>
>> I want to use perl to do the hard work
>>
>> I want an arduino or the Pi to do the doppler and rotator
>>
>> Andrew
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