Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite Tracking and tuning

["A.J. Farmer (AJ3U)" <farmer.aj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

Try WispDDE.  It interfaces with Nova and will control your radio:

http://www.laboratoriomederos.com/CX6DD/wispdde/wispdde.htm

It still is not as intuitive as it should be, but it works.

-- 
A.J. Farmer, AJ3U
http://www.aj3u.com



On 8/7/06, Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu> wrote:
> At long last we decided to do autotracking.
>
>  But we must be missing something because it seems to be the most
> convoluted missmash of a hodgepodge.
>
> Trying to use a M2 RC2800PDC controller
> NOVA and a Kenwood TS-2000.
>
> It seems that NOVA can do the antenna fine, but not the
> radio.  We are trying HRD (Ham Radio Delux) to do the
> radio control, but it wont let us split out the PCSAT2 data
> at the same time.
>
> And setting up these two programs to do the equivalent
> of simply "TRACK ISS" seems to be a very tedious process
> with both programs.  And then when one wants to change
> satellties (which we do frequntly during the day, it is
> dozens of clicks on both programs.  I'm letting a student
> figure this all out, but looking over his shoulder it seems
> amazingly non-intuitive...
>
> What are we missing?
>
> Grrr... Maybe we should go back to Instantrack...
> or RTFM....
>
> Bob
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