<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Lynn and Eric,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What Eric may have been thinking of is/was ASTARS (<a href="http://www.aprs.org/astars.html" class="">http://www.aprs.org/astars.html</a> . It utilized a team of 'local' stations which ran predictions for APRS based satellites and transmitted a message with predictions for the next hour to hour and a half, or so. It was a very handy feature when you were in the field and didn't have a computer handy -- and this was pre-smartphone. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It could still be a great function for backpackers who might find themselves with a dead cellphone, assuming their APRS HT still had power.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">73, Frank KR1ZAN</div><div class="">Plano, TX</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 21, 2020, at 22:26, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) <<a href="mailto:KJ4ERJ@arrl.net" class="">KJ4ERJ@arrl.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">How did said service know WHICH satellite you wanted notification for? While I think it would be a neat idea, and I've considered adding satellite-named groups to my ANSRVR, there are so many satellites being tracked now that we could fill the channel with notifications. Especially if multiple people in a given area were running such a station on RF 24x7...<br class=""><br class="">See <a href="http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:satsrv" class="">http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:satsrv</a> for documentation on the satellite pass auto-responder called SATSRV.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">23:25:03 New Chat Between KJ4ERJ and ISS on 2020-11-21<br class="">23:25:07> when<br class="">23:25:07< AOS 34m50s N NE^8 E 8m (*2-23:25:07)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Tells me my next pass will acquire signal in just under 35 minutes and will traverse from North to NorthEast to East with a peak elevation of only 8 degrees above the horizon. And the entire pass will be done in 8 minutes, acquisition to loss of signal. It only works if you've recently beaconed a position.<br class=""><br class="">Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 11/21/2020 6:08 PM, Eric H. Christensen via aprssig wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">A long, long, long time ago there used to be a service that would send a user a notification (over APRS) that a satellite pass was due if that user had their Mic-E status set to one of the custom statuses. I cannot find any information on this, now. Does this still exist?<br class=""><br class="">73,<br class="">Eric WG3K<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">aprssig mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" class="">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br class="">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">aprssig mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" class="">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br class="">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>