[amsat-bb] Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page

[Mike Diehl]

Any chance we can get some way to get the list of satellites as well as the current status data in JSON? This would make it a whole lot easier to develop our own interfaces and would also reduce overhead without having to transfer the entire page. 

73,
Mike Diehl 
W8LID/VE6LID 

> On Sep 10, 2019, at 22:47, Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to the efforts of new member Ed, KN6DBC, improvements have been made to www.amsat.org/status<http://www.amsat.org/status>, specifically, some filtering of the "Your Callsign" field has been added  in an effort to reject the occasional nonsense report.    The entry must look like a callsign, for example it must have at least one digit, it must not end with a digit etc.
> 
> As a bonus, the"Your Grid Square" field has been added.    Separate entries are now preferred instead of workarounds like KM1P-FN42.
> 
> AMSAT maintains this page  to give a single global reference point for all users in the Amateur Satellite Service to show the most up-to-date status of all satellites as actually reported in real time by users around the world. Please help others and keep it current every time you access a bird.
> 
> 73 de KM1P Joe
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