[amsat-bb] NOVA and Windows 10

[Wendy and Terry Osborne]

Hi Scott,

Let's get Nova running first.
The satellites are out of date because it's loading the Kep file from when 
the program was written.

To update the Keps, save the page from here: 
https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/nasa.all.
Save this as a text file to somewhere useful like the desk top.
This will give you a file called nasa.all.txt.
Nova is a bit picky about the format of the Kep files.
To get this correct:
Rename this to remove the first dot and all (nasa.txt).
Open the file (Notepad) and delete the packet header up to the blank line 
above AO7.
The remove the /EX from the end of the file and save the modified file.

>From the Kep. Elements menu, select "Disk file update"  and "Manual update 
from file"
This should bring up a screen "Update Keplerian Elements" .
Click on "Update" and you should then be able to navigate to nasa.txt.
(Change the drop down box from DATA Files to Text files).
That should update the satellites for you.

If you go into "Views", "Configure the current view" and select the 
"Observers" tab, you will see a "Set up Observers" button. Select this and you should be able 
to set your location.

Let me know if this works OK.

73,
Terry ZL2BAC





-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Millick
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 4:23 PM
To: Wendy and Terry Osborne
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Nova with Windows 10

Problem I have I can get it running but the
satellites are out of date  Having a lot of
problems with satpc I got it running but no
matter set for observer (I live in Illinois USA)
it puts me in California and jave yet to figure
it out   I am just looking to display my choice
of satellites and when they hit my footprint show
it to me.  When I had my satitllite antennas I
use it to control my Yaesu rotors  thanks


At 09:49 PM 9/8/2019, you wrote:
>Hi Folks, Following a query from Scott on this bb, I like Nova and so I 
>decided that I would investigate. I managed to install Windows 10 on my old 
>Toshiba laptop. I found that it didn't like big capacity USB sticks 
>(again). NOVA: See: https://www.nlsa.com/ If I installed Nova from the 
>setup.exe, the program would run quite happily. I then tried installing the 
>patch.exe and got this error message. “Exception ERegistryException in 
>module NfW32.exe at 0007B3EA. Failed to set data for ”. ” Deleting and 
>reinstalling setup.exe with the repair option, fixed the error and it now 
>runs OK. This may help other people who have had this problem, see: 
>https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-April/067601.html 73, Terry 
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