[Nova-Net] Amateur Sats

[James Jolin]

Ernie Howard wrote:
> James,
>
> Nobody has given you the really simple solution for fixing ham sat 
> names....and keep you from doing it 'by hand'.
>
> Go to the ARRL we site where they keep a copy of the latest KEP bulletin:
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/
>
> Select "nasa.all" to get the keps with their common 'amateur' names. 
> You then can edit the file with 'notepad' (to remove all but the keps) 
> and save it to your computer. You can then do a manual kep update. 
> (Click - Kep Elements, Disk file Update, Manual Update From File.) 
> Select 'Clean' then find your text file that you saved. This should 
> import all the accepted satellite file names to Nova.
>
> As others have suggested, after doing this make sure that you have 
> 'preserve satellite names' checked before doing an update from now on. 
> Especially if you download your keps from space-track.org.
>
> You can make Nova do the work for you if you figure out how to use 
> some of the lesser known features.
>
> Ernie W8EH
>
>
>
> James Jolin wrote:
>> I need help. Some of the amateur sats are not listed, e.g., ao27,ao51 
>> to name two.  What do I do to get all the amateur sats?  Running 
>> 2.2b.  Ran the internet update, but that did not seem to help.
>> JJolin
>>
>>
>
Thanks gents for all the info.  I tried the one above first.  I 
downloaded the kep elements file ( I do get them on a regular basis from 
arrl) and edited them in notepad and came to the part of "save as."  So, 
I tried save as txt, kep, and dat.  On all three the program infomed me 
it was not a valid kep file.  When open the file in notepad again 
everything was missing but one line...everything else was gone.  Never 
ran into something like that before.  What gives?
Jim Jolin
WA9ARB
Sturgeon Bay, Wi
cwop 5937



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