It would be nice if someone could convince the powers-that-be at Celestrak to add newly-launched amateur satellites to the amateur.txt file sooner...
George, KA3HSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:43 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-! keps [snip] > > One possible source of confusion is due to the fact that amateur.txt > is not the only possible source of keplerian elements. If you call up > the window that appears with the 'Satelites' menu, on the far left you > will see a list of files in the SatPC32/Kepler directory. Clicking on > any one of these will generate a list of satellites whose orbits are > defined in that file, and from there you can select a subgroup to be > displayed in the main program. As a result, if you edit the > 'amateur.txt' file, be sure that this is the file you have selected > under the 'Satellites' window as well. Also note that when you update > the keps from the web, you'll clobber the file that you edited by > hand. > > 73, Bruce > _______________________________________________ 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
