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- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 04:30:25 PST
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- Ham-Space Digest Mon, 28 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 73
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- Today's Topics:
- Telecom and Meteors
- UNIX satellite tracking program
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- Date: 23 Mar 94 00:12:05 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu!cdfore@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: Telecom and Meteors
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
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- Help!! I'm Looking for info on using meteors to bounce signals for
- telecommunication. I saw a show in January on it. Now I have to write a
- paper on something in telecommunication and as you can see my writing sucks.
- But I think if I can get some info about something my prof has not hear of it
- will help. So any one out there with info or know how I can get some please
- reply.
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- E-mail cdfore@rs600.cmp.ilstu.edu
-
- Curt Fore lost Student and new i-net user :->
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- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 06:03:01 GMT
- From: netcomsv!netcom.com!wy1z@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: UNIX satellite tracking program
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
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- In article <2mnj03$6ds@agate.berkeley.edu> manfred@isi5.ssl.berkeley.edu (Manfred Bester) writes:
- >
- >> From: robert@plasma.apana.org.au (Robert Kroes)
- >> Subject: Any sat tracking progs available for unix?
- >
- >> Does anyone know of a program preferably written in C (but fortran-77
- >> would suffice I suppose) which will track satellites using the standard
- >> 2-line element sets. I would like to compile it up under UNIX. I see
- >> absolutely no reason why these programs should only be available in
- >> a pre-compiled form for mess-doss :-)
- >
- >> Thanks in advance.
- >> -Robert Kroes-
- >> robert@plasma.apana.org.au
- >
- >
- >There is SatTrack that I have written on a Sun workstation (in C). The
- >version I've released twice is V1.7. Bob Kuipek was kind enough to
- >provide a FTP site from which it can be obtained. It's now available on
- >ftp.jvnc.net in /priv/kupiec.
- >
- >This program has no graphics, but a live display mode and orbit prediction
- >features. In the meantime, I spent quite some more time to work on the
- >program and also incorporated numerous suggestions from users all over the
- >world. The new version (V2.0) is not quite ready to be publicly released,
- >but I hope I can check the program some more during the next six weeks
- >or so. It will feature a live display for a single satellite as well as
- >a live display for multiple satellites (as many as the computing power
- >of the machine it runs on allows), a batch mode with arguments passed
- >on the command line, and the orbit prediction capabilities that V1.7 had.
- >There are more improvements like the calculation of squint angles (for
- >AO-10 and AO-13), and also some subroutines that allow control of ground
- >station equipment, like radios and antenna controllers. The framework
- >for the latter are part of SatTrack V2.0 and easily be configured by the
- >user for specific hardware.
- >
- >Stay tuned...
- >
- >73, Manfred
- >W6/DL5KR
- >
- >Manfred Bester
- >Space Sciences Lab
- >UC Berkeley
- >(510) 642-8497
- >manfred@ssl.berkeley.edu
- >
- >
-
-
- I will be placing this on oak.oakland.edu:/pub/hamradio/unix/satellite
-
- Scott
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