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GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES (NORTH AMERICA)
This program is an adaptation from the public domain program SYNCSAT.
Unfortunately, the public domain program does not run without BASIC
support, and the interface is unfinished.
I have rewritten this program in Turbo-Pascal and have changed the
format such that much of the "interactive" queries have been
eliminated.
The program will now simply ask you for your geographical longitude and
latitude as well as your altitude. The pointing angles at the location
of the satellite dish looking at the common C-Band and Ku-Band North
American Satellites are then displayed.
This display visually allows you to see the graceful arc in the sky that
these satellites occupy.
The program is really quite simple and is intended to allow one to see
the viewing angles of a home satellite dish at various locations
throughout North America.
The program uses GEOSAT.DAT to read the list of current satellites. This
is an ASCII file and can be modified, although more than 24 entries will
cause the display to scroll too much. Be sure that this file is located
in the same directory as the primary GEOSAT.EXE file.
Altough donated to the public domain again, please let me know if you
have found this program useful or mathematically accurate.
Philip Miller
32680 Coast Ridge Drive
Carmel, California
October 1990