Linux-Hams archive - April 1999: Re: sattrack

Re: sattrack

Riley Williams (tiv.sarjs@netraprise.com)
Sat, 3 Apr 1999 15:19:06 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Jonathan.

> I have a satellite tracking program for Linux that I wrote a few
> years ago which works a treat.

> Unlike sattrack it isn't a commercial product and its under the
> GPL, I just never got around to releasing it. It uses Motif, but
> I have plans to port it to the Qt toolkit, or something else
> that looks nice and has the required functionality.

I'd be interested in a version that worked under TCL/TK and that
should be doable. In fact, I could probably lay out the display in
TCL/TK inside half an hour, and one would just need to write the
routines to do the calculations and fetch any updates...

> I brought the source code over here from the UK a few weeks ago,
> but the floppy had an error on it. So it'll have to wait until
> my next return to the UK in a few weeks, then I'll start work on
> it.

> Anyone interested ?

I would be...

Best wishes from Riley.

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