[aprssig] ISS Tracking & Pass Information

[Steve Noskowicz]

>From the "as-long-as-you're-dreaming-aim-high" department...

Send a message to "SatPas" with message content being a number h from 1 to 24 and get those sats that have a pass in the next h hours...
-- 
 73, Steve, K9DCI   

--- Steve Noskowicz, K9DCI wrote:
> 
> --- Lynn W. Deffenbaugh wrote:
> > There's a new ISS object flying in APRS-IS, ...
> 
> > AOS: xx:yyz+aa:bbc - If you are not in a pass
> 
> Pretty cool!  More stuff for my Beginner Guide.
> 
>   RE xx:yyz 
> 1-  Is this hh:mmZ  the delta time *to* the next
> AOS?   Why the "z"?  Just an
> identifier?
> 2-  Is it rounded to the nearest minute, or is it the
> minute before AOS?
> 
>   RE +aa:bbc
> 3-  Is this duration in minutes:seconds?  If so,
> then what is "c" for?
> 
> 
> From the how-about-it department...
>   RE: .but for any of the other satellites found in
> the TLE...
> > set from http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/amateur.txt
> ...
> > If you have any trouble figuring out which satellite
> name...
> 
>   Would it be possible to have a place to send a
> message to that returns all the currently tracked sat
> names?   e.g send a message to "SatPass" and
> get a reply (or replies) with list(s) of sat names that will
> return pass info...or is the list too long? (I'm not
> familiar with this "TLE" thing)
> 
> -- 
> 73, Steve, K9DCI
> 
> 
> 
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