[amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 13, Issue 212

[Doug Phelps]

ISS detector does all that automatically.

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On Jun 17, 2018, 11:05 PM, k6vug at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> WinAOS is great to list passes for a given date and Countd is good for field events with a laptop.  Both are part of both part of SatPC32.
>
> For hand held activity, I copy predictions form amsat.org into a spreadsheet. Then a macro filters the passes by max elevation and time of day and exports the result as an iCal file.  Finally, the iCal file is imported into my Google Calendar.  Its a little bit of work once a few month, but it conveniently pings me X minutes before the next pass and don't have to carry printed copies.
>
> There have been other apps and suggestions but found these to be most convenient, after trying several other ones.
>
> 73!
> Umesh
> K6VUG
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> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:51:01 -0400
> From: Thomas Schaefer <ny4i at ny4i.com>
> To: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net>
> Cc: AMSAT BB <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org>
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Generate times for FD satellite passes
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> Thanks to all. I forgot about WinAOS.
>
> That might be easier as I can select just the sats I want.
>
> I will ask another question about resetting the saved window position as last time I ran SatPC32, I had 2 monitors.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
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