Re: [amsat-bb] satellite names

[Paul Yeager <w4ski@xxxxxxxx>]

Gee.... ya mean write some software that actually accommodates the way 
humans do things?  What a concept!

By the way, I'm a software engineer, and this is not an idle snipe.  One 
might construct a table of satellite names, where each row represented a 
satellite, and each column represented one of the possible names for that 
satellite.

When attempting to verify a match, one would attempt to select from this 
table all rows that contain either the sat name from QSO A or the sat name 
from QSO B.  If the the QSOs are indeed a match, one row would be 
returned.  It  not a match, two rows would be returned.

There's my two cents' worth!

73

Paul W4SKI

At 12:47 PM 1/31/04 -0500, sco@sco-inc.com wrote:

>Thats why the ONLY reliable name method for LOTW to use is to have 
>AMSAT-NA build an intelligent database of satellite names.
>This database would "lump" Oscar-40, OSCAR-40, OSCAR 40, AO40, and AO-40 
>into the same field. So if you use one of those names and I use one of the 
>other names for Oscar 40 ... LOTW will "see" the QSOs in our logs as a 
>MATCH.  That is the only way it can work.
>
>W4SCO
>
>
>At 11:10 AM 1/31/2004, you wrote:
>>Jim -
>>
>>The names that are associated with satellite Keplerian elements depend on 
>>where you get the elements from.  If everyone got them from the same 
>>source, then the names would be consistent, but that isn't the case.
>>Some "Keps" say Oscar-40 or OSCAR-40 or OSCAR 40, some say AO-40.  The 
>>only thing that is consistent is the satellite catalog number, and even 
>>those can be mis-assigned (especially shortly after launch if there are 
>>multiple payloads).
>>
>>W9IP
>>
>>Jim Jarvis wrote:
>>
>>>Wouldn't it be simplest for lotw/adif folks to take the
>>>names as they appear in NOVA?  This is consistent with how
>>>the KEPS are named.
>>>
>>>A short note to whomever is reponsible for lotw @ arrl
>>>should be enough to get this fixed.  Or am I missing
>>>something?
>>>
>>>N2EA
>>>
>>>
>>>
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