Re: [amsat-bb] Graphical Satellite Tracking with Linux

["James C. Hall MD" <heartdoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg D. wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I've used mtrack in the past, and supposedly you can lash 
> xearth/xplanet to predict (but I haven't been able to make that 
> work).  mtrack has a decent display of where the satellite is, a 
> ground track and circle, and can track multiple sats at once.
>
> But, besides the eye candy, what do you want the tracking program to 
> do?  I ended up dropping mtrack in favor of predict (minux the 
> simulated Earth stuff), because I found the spot in the source where I 
> could modify the rotor interface to match my homebrew controller.  
> And, it also provided an interface that I could write a small program 
> to drive the radio's doppler too.  So, I have total automation (at 
> least, as total as can be with a 736r), but no graphics, at least for 
> now.
>
> Greg  KO6TH
>
>
>
> Hi All:
>   Does anyone here have a graphical sat track program running under 
> Linux?  I'm running a 2.6 GHz Celeron PC with Fedora Core 3 and 
> haven't been able to figure out how to get GSat compiled.  The GSat 
> version is labeled 1.1.0 and came with a download of predict.  Predict 
> compiled and seems to run fine.  When compiling GSat the configure 
> program complains that it can't find GTK.  Using the package manager, 
> I have installed the GNOME software development tools.  Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Mike K4MPL (ex KU4AD)
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Hi Greg:

That's good stuff.  I have a friend who owns a 736R that is not yet in 
satellites.  I'm working on him.  I like Predict for its simplicity and 
the fact you can run it with a 'portable' kernel on a floppy drive. If 
you've figured out how to read the 736R and drive the rotors, I wouldn't 
mind seeing it and showing him what it could do.

73, Jamie
WB4YDL
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