Re: [amsat-bb] Winorb and ALON/ALAT

["Michael Kingery" <mkingery@xxxxxxx>]

Russ,

Using WinOrbit I do the following:

1)  Reverse the sign of Alat.
2)  Subtract 180 from Alon.  If Alon is less than 180 I add 180 to it.

So, for the example of 346/3 I would enter -3 for the Alat and 166 for Alon.

73 KE4AZN
Mike Kingery


> Pardon me if this has already been asked, but what is the correct
> way to enter Alon/Alat into WinOrb?
>
> I plugged into the ao-40.att file 346/3 suggested by w4sm, but
> I'm pretty sure the squint can't be what WinOrb is reporting,
> because I was hearing QSOs earlier on, and the BCN was coming
> in S4 to S5 above the noise until 0420z, when the dish fell off
> the deck.  Broke my only SMA to N adaptor, so I can't run my
> DEM preamp for a while.  8^(
>
> tnx de va3rr/aa8lu
>



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