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1987-10-11
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BBS SATELLITE SCHEDULE MANUAL
This is a program intended for those BBS operators who have the
ability to run jobs through a shell escape at the direction of
(say) the forward.tnc file (or whatever it is called these days).
Understand that you need to know nothing about satellites to run
this program. The utilities take care of all that for you. There
are four files you need to run this utility.
QTHBBS This is an ascii file that tells the computer what your
latitude, longitude, height above sea level in meters, the
current year, your time zone, full path name to the file where
you wish to have the bbsked written and the number of days you
wish the program to search for passes.
KEPC.DAT This is the file where the keplerian elements are
stored for the programs use.
KEPLER.COM This is a utility written by WB2MNF that takes the
AMSAT keplerian bulletins and turns them into a file that is
readable by quiktrak 3.0+ and quikbbs.
QUIKBBS.EXE This is the schedule algorithm written by N4HY
QTHBBS has its data entered in exactly the order described above.
One item per line makes it easy to read but a space is all that
is needed between the items is you wish. This will NOT save you
disk space. On a hard disk you are going to give this guy 1024
bytes of storage any way you look at it. SO enter them so they
are easy to read. The timezone is simpliicity itself. Enter the
name of the zone (three letters) and the offset. THIS IS THE
TIME ZONE YOUR COMPUTER USES. If you use UTC put UTC0. If you
are on Eastern Daylight time put EDT4. If you use Pacific
Standard time put PST8, etc.
KEPC.DAT is also in ascii. I will not explain why these numbers
are here. This program with KEPLER.COM utility assures that you
have to no absolutely NOTHING about satellites etc. in order to
run this program.
KEPLER.COM makes a keplerian file out of the AMSAT distribution
that is posted to CIS every week. Nice JOB JON! When you run
the program, you will be asked for the name of the input file and
the name of the output file. YOU MUST make the output file
kepc.dat Name the input file whatever you call the file where
the weekly keps bulletin is stored on your computer. You don't
have to remove any extra lines it will ignore them.
Eric WA6YBT has uploaded a file with the frequencies of all the
satellites in the AMATEUR satellite service that are at least
semi-active to very active. It is amazingly easy to listen to
say OSCAR-11. You can hear it on a handi-talkie with a rubber
duck. You won't copy data at the quieting such a setup will give
you but you CAN hear it.
CAVEAT! The year in the QTHBBS file MUST correspond to the year
given on the keplerian element set because of a computational
chosen by WB2MNF in KEPLER.COM This will cause care to be taken
near the end of each year. Just wait until all the new element
sets are out for that year and change the year in QTHBBS to the
new year and then run KEPLER.COM on the AMSAT file.
Happy Satellite Hunting! de Bob N4HY