[amsat-bb] A Modern Oscar Locator

[Jim Sanford]

NICE!

73,

Jim

wb4gcs at amsat.org


On 4/7/2019 2:42 PM, Robert Bruninga via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> I absolutely love it!  Everyting you need at a glance!
>
> Bob Bruninga
> Wb4APR
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 9:32 AM Don KB2YSI via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 Bob 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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