Wait a minute. I don't think it is Paul's fault. I looked at my raw 2-line set from last week and it had missing spaces. Every raw 2-line set upto last week was OK.
Each week as part of my process, I replace all AFSPC "+" marks with a blank space. As I did this last week, I must have typed some character other than "+" and the replacement failed. I did not notice this and the 2-line elements had messed up row lengths. I went through my process this week very carefully and did not have last weeks problem. This week should be OK. Paul Williamson wrote: >At 3:44 PM -0700 7/8/09, Bryan Green wrote: > > >>Minor emergency: the "Bare NASA (2-line) format elements page" appears to be >>truncated: >> >> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt >> >>This in turn means that my beloved GoSatWatch software is no-worky! >> >>Who fixes these things? >> >> > >That's me, I wrote and maintain the scripts that create the files on the FTP >site from the Keps bulletins published by Ray Hoad. Thanks for pointing out >the problem. > >The script that creates the nasabare.txt file simply scans the nasa.all file >and copies out everything that's a valid 2-line element set. The nasa.all >file, in turn, is created by saving everything between the SB line and the /EX >line in the bulletin email message, just as a packet radio BBS would have done. > >The error this week is actually in the bulletin text itself. Many of the >element sets in the bulletin were mangled for some reason. You can see this >easily by noting that the line lengths are not all the same, as they should be. > >I have replaced both nasa.all and nasabare.txt with versions from last week's >bulletins. When Ray publishes a new set (usually on Friday), they will be >replaced as usual with the latest info. > >73 -Paul >[email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
