[amsat-bb] A Modern Oscar Locator

[Don KB2YSI]

That good nice Chris.

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019, 09:17 Chris Thompson via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> I wanted a simple program that showed when target spacecraft would be above
> the horizon. I remembered a picture of an old program that Rob Bruninga
> posted on AMSAT-BB some time ago. I could not find that picture, but I
> built something similar and it looks like this:
> http://www.g0kla.com/klatrack/klatrack_dark.png
>
> It's a simple program that plots the elevation of upcoming satellite passes
> as a horizontal display and then updates it in real time.  It does a one
> time calculation to fill its buffer of positions, then its pretty efficient
> because it just calculates the next position it needs in the future.
>
> The details and the download are here:
> http://www.g0kla.com/klatrack/index.php
>
> Thanks again to Dave Johnson (G4DPZ) for his port to Java of John
> Maglicane's (KB2BD) predict library.
>
> The is made available under the Gnu GPL and I will upload the code to
> github when I get a chance.
>
> 73
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris E. Thompson
> chrisethompson at gmail.com
> g0kla at arrl.net
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