3 Satellite Software.

John Melton, G0ORX/N6LYT, g0orx@amsat.org and Jonathan Naylor G4KLX, g4klx@amsat.org

Microsat Ground Station software.

BETA. Version 0.9-Xaw released.

Alan Cox's kernel based AX.25 support ver 1.1.12 or better. X-Windows. The programs make use of the Athena Widgets and look much better with the 3D libraries.

This software allows you to use of a KISS tnc to directly communicate with the Microsat series of satellites. It provides an Athena Widgets based X-Windows interface, and allows you a comprehensive range of means of interacting with the satellite. The software should work with any window manager.

The software provides the following programs:

xpb:

broadcast monitor

xpg:

ftl0 file upload program, message upload program

xtlm:

telemetry display program

downloaded:

downloaded file list viewer

directory:

directory list viewer

message:

message preparation application

viewtext:

uncompressed ASCII text file viewer

viewlog:

display the contents of some log files

xweber:

special program for downloading webersat images

phs:

general purpose PACSAT header stripper

SatTrack

Manfred Bester, DL5KR, manfred@ssl.berkeley.edu

A VT100 and X11 based satellite tracking program.

Version 2.0 is a release version.

A vt100 terminal and or X11 server. A Maths Coprocessor for good performance, though it seems to work just fine on my 486sx25.

SatTrack provides a real-time or predictive display of Satellite orbit data. The current version uses a VT100 display to provide a text based interface to the data and an X11 based display to provide a graphical view of the orbit data.

Compiling the software under Linux is quite straightforward. Manfred has designed the Makefile to compile the software directly under your home directory, this is easy to change.

The steps I took were:

# cd /usr/src
# export HOME=/usr/src
# gzip -dc sattrack.V3.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd SatTrack/src
# vi Makefile
  {Comment SUN4 compile options}
  {Uncomment the linux options}
  {Select the options you want} 
# make