[amsat-bb] A few minor nit-picks about the AMSAT Status webpage

Loren M. Lang penguin359 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 00:27:14 UTC 2020


Nothing major, just a few small nitpicky items I noticed while developing
my App for the AMSAT Status webpage. The first is that the quarter hours
are not perfectly equal. That they are listed as:

:00-15
:16-30
:31-45
:46-59

I popped out because it didn't quite align with my time-picker widget that
goes 0, 15, 30, 45. The minutes should really be either:

00-14
15-29
30-44
45-59

Or:

01-15
16-30
31-45
46-00

If they are all perfectly 15 minutes long. My widget automatically selects
the current quarter hour when it's loaded. Though, it is a pretty minor
issue.

The other item I would like to see changed is the return of a test
satellite or two. There used to be AO-98 and AO-99, I believe, before those
numbers became real satellites that were advertised as being for testing
purposes. It would be nice to have something I could put in there for
testing that would also be select-able from the AMSAT API at
/status/api/v1/sat_info.php that I could use to provide automated testing
of my App. It doesn't necessarily have to show on the main page as long as
I can pull it back down through the API so I can automate release testing
whenever I provide an update.

Thanks for providing this great service!

73s,
-Loren
K7IW


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