[amsat-bb] Upcoming Satellite Passes--Best Tool Question

[Pedro Converso]

Hello Apostolous,

YES!, the windows executable of Gpredic works nicely on W10.

73, lu7abf, Pedro

On 4/23/19, Mark D. Johns via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> The tool within SatPC32 that you have been using works perfectly well *IF*
> you set it up correctly. There is a setting for minimum elevation for the
> pass. You should set that no higher than 1, or it will filter out perfectly
> good passes that simply aren’t high enough to meet the threshold.
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:22 Apostolos Kefalas via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Les,
>>
>> the latest release of Gpredict [1] seems to have a Windows executable
>> [2]. I do not know if it runs on Win10 but it is worth a try.
>>
>> 73 de SV1LJJ
>> Apostolos
>>
>> [1] http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/
>> [2] https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict
>> -win32-2.2.1.zip
>> <https://github.com/csete/gpredict/releases/download/v2.2.1/gpredict-win32-2.2.1.zip>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 23:28 -0500, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote:
>> > I need some advice, and I promise to be grateful.
>> >
>> > Trying to work a sked tonight with Jeff W4EB on EO-88 and yours truly
>> > made a series of newbie mistakes.
>> >
>> > Since becoming involved in satellites, I’ve always relied on the
>> > “Countdown” program within SatPC32 to let me know what passes were
>> > coming up at my location.
>> >
>> > Tonight I learned that I’ve been missing God knows how many passes
>> > per day! The Countdown software will only display one (1) upcoming
>> > pass for a given satellite at your location until that satellite has
>> > disappeared from view.
>> >
>> > In the case of EO-88, I actually had two passes overhead about an
>> > hour apart, but only knew about the first one.
>> >
>> > Strictly Windows 10 PC in the shack. What’s the best tool to use to
>> > help me visualize ALL the upcoming passes for the next twelve hours
>> > or so at my location. I love the Countdown format, just want to be
>> > able to see multiple passes from the same birds.
>> >
>> > P.S. The other newbie mistake was forgetting to switch my antenna
>> > back to the IC-910H after doing an APRS pass earlier on the D-710.
>> > DUH! I really need to invest in an IC-9700.
>> >
>> > Thanks Jeff for your patience.
>> >
>> >
>> > 73,
>> >
>> > Les Rayburn, N1LF
>> > Maylene, AL
>> > EM63nf
>> > AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
>> >
>>
>>
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