[amsat-bb] A Modern Oscar Locator

[Jim Jerzycke]

 Really cool!
Thanks for making this available.
73, Jim  KQ0EA
 
 
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From: Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Sun, Apr 7, 2019 7:52 pm
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] A Modern Oscar Locator

I concur, that's very good software.  Thanks!

Bob
W7OTJ

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 12:31 PM Jim Sanford via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
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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