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- P C T S C A N PC-TRACK Satellite Pass Summary Utility
- Version 1.0 12/2/91
- Copyright (c) 1991 Thomas C. Johnson
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- PCTSCAN generates satellite pass summaries for up to 8 satellites for one
- tracking station. PCTSCAN uses the PC-TRACK files OBJECTS.DAT and
- OBSERVER.DAT for satellite and station data. It also uses SYSTEM.DEF file
- to determine which satellites and station to generate summaries for. The
- defaults set up during CONFIG SYSTEM in PC-TRACK are used. PCTSCAN uses
- the data path in SYSTEM.DEF to know where to look for OBJECTS.DAT and
- OBSERVER.DAT. PCTSCAN must be in the same directory as SYSTEM.DEF.
-
- PCTSCAN takes up to three optional arguments as follows:
-
- PCTSCAN [/Ofilespec] [/Dstartdate] [/Nnumberofdays]
-
- /Ofilespec
- Where "filespec" is the name and path of the output file which will
- contain the summary information produced by PCTSCAN. The default
- filespec is SCAN.DAT. To send data to the printer, you may enter
- "prn" as the filespec.
-
-
- /Dstartdate
- Where "startdate" is the date of the first day to be scanned. Format for
- startdate is MM/DD/YY where MM is the month from 01 to 12, DD is the day
- of the month from 01 to 31, and YY is the last two digits of the year, from
- 00 to 99. The default date is the day following the current system date.
-
- /Nnumberofdays
- Where "numberofdays" is the number of days to be scanned starting with
- "startdate". The default number of days to scan is 1.
-
- The /F, /D, and /N arguments may be given in any order.
-
- PCTSCAN can be terminated at any time by pressing the ESC key. Processing
- will terminate and any pass data computed thus far will be written to the
- output destination.
-
- PCTSCAN generates summary information for each satellite for each in-range
- pass for the number of days designated before moving on to the next
- satellite. Once all satellites are scanned for all days designated, the
- data is sorted according to Acquisition Of Signal (AOS) date and time.
-
- PCTSCAN sends summary information to the designated output file in the
- format shown below. Each line is terminated by a CR/LF.
-
- Sample scan report:
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- P C T S C A N PC-Track Satellite Pass Summary Utility
- Version 1.0 12/2/91
- Copyright (c) 1991 Thomas C. Johnson
-
-
- Scan Report for Dayton
-
- OBJECT AOS AOS CPA MAX LOS TIME IN PASS
- NAME DATE TIME TIME ELEV TIME RANGE DIRECTION
- (UTC) (UTC) (UTC) (UTC)
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- GPS BII-01 12/04/1991 08:12:54 10:25:57 29.3 12:22:30 04:09:35 NORTHWARD
- GPS BII-01 12/04/1991 22:50:39 01:26:13 47.1 03:59:51 05:09:11 SOUTHWARD
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- Scan report fields:
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- Scan report for ________ : Name of tracking station report is generated for.
- Object Name : Name of satellite
- AOS Date : Date of Acquisition Of Signal (AOS).
- AOS Time : Time of Acquisition Of Signal.
- CPA Time : Time of Closest Point Of Approach (CPA)
- MAX Elev : Maximum Elevation (elevation at CPA).
- LOS Time : Time of Loss Of Signal (LOS).
- Time In Range : Total time in range (LOS - AOS)
- Pass Direction : Direction of satellite pass
- Northward starts from south and goes north.
- Southward starts from north and goes south.
-
- Dates are given in the format MM/DD/YYYY where MM is the month, DD is the day
- of the month, and YYYY is the year.
-
- Times are given in the format HH:MM:SS where HH is the hours, MM is the
- minutes, and SS is the seconds. Times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or
- Local (LOCAL) depending on the configuration in SYSTEM.DEF set while in
- CONFIG SYSTEM in PCTRACK.
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