[amsat-bb] A Modern Oscar Locator

Joe nss at mwt.net
Sun Apr 7 21:47:28 UTC 2019


I un zip it and see the three files, I click the, KlaTrack.exe and it 
gives the safety unknown do you really want to bla bla bla and tell it 
yes run anyway, but then nothing happens.

Joe WB9SBD
Sig
The Original Rolling Ball Clock
Idle Tyme
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On 4/7/2019 4:31 PM, Chris Thompson via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Are you on Windows?  Do you get nothing when you double click the exe?
> What version of Java do you have installed?  Maybe it is silently
> crashing?  Is the exe still there?  You anti-virus might have deleted it.
>
> If you have java in your path try running it from the command line and let
> me know what error it prints out.  e.g. open a command prompt.  Go to the
> install directory.  Type java -jar KlaTrack.jar
> If java is not in the path then use the full path to java.exe.
>
> 73
> Chris
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 4:33 PM Joe via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
>> I double click on it and nothing happens.
>>
>> Joe WB9SBD
>> Sig
>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
>> Idle Tyme
>> Idle-Tyme.com
>> http://www.idle-tyme.com
>> On 4/7/2019 2:30 PM, Jim Sanford via AMSAT-BB wrote:
>>> 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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