From: Jonathan Naylor (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 15:43:33 EET
Happy New Year to all
I am happy to announce that new versions of mtrack and baken are now
available. These are bundled with SuSE and maybe other distributions also,
they are both GPL.
mtrack
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Mtrack is a GTK based satellite tracking program. The latest version 0.3 is
much changed over 0.2.3 the previous version, the CHANGES file for 0.3
follows:
Lots of changes. So where to start ?
Multiple satellites displayed simultaneously.
Increased size of modes entry, AO-40 has more and more complex modes then any
preious satellite.
Doppler display improved, but have reduced number of entries to 2 from 3.
AOS/LOS calculation.
Add -Z flag to a satellite for correct squint calculation, needed for AO-40.
Fixed bug in the squint angle calculation.
Improved entry of satellite categories in the satellite modification dialog
box.
Use radio buttons to choose the date format instead of entering text.
Not so picky about reading .mtrackrc files with unknown entries in.
A reasonably full set of help files have been included, they vary in quality
but are better than nothing.
Double buffered the screen image to reduce flicker.
Small change to tracking calcultions to improve accuracy on very LEO
satellites (where the drag is significant).
Increased length of satellite names throughout the system because the names
appear to be getting bigger.
Updated tle2mtrack to take into account the changes in the main program.
Updated tle2mtrack to add new flags -v for verbose and -f to change the
satfile that needs updating.
Added new program oldkeps which removes old satelite entries from the
satfile.
When installing the satfile and locfile, the permissions are now set to
anyone can modify them.
baken
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Baken is a program for visualising Europe from the point of view of operating
on VHF/UHF and SHF. It is possibly to plot beacons, and other systems by band
and by type and determine where they are from your QTH. The CHANGES file from
version 0.5 follows:
Added section for Rain Scatter (RS) stations, and a program called rslist
that can parse the Rain Scatter station list from DG1VL.
Added option to calculate the scatter point between two stations, based on
the program REGEN.BAS written by Rudi OE5VRL.
Added section for TV repeaters.
Both of these are available now as source tarballs. At present I am too lazy
to update my web pages to include the new files, so send me an e-mail to
receive the tarballs from me. I am sure someone will produce binary RPMs in
short order, please not that compared with previous versions of these
packages, additional files are copied with the "make install" command and so
any old RPM spec files will need to be updated.
73 and Happy New Year
Jonathan HB9DRD/G4KLX
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