Hi, all,

After several years of not-so-active activity, I'm wanting to get back
into satellite communications. What are the commonly used programs for
tracking satellites there now?

As a side note - I saw one thread from over a year ago about tracking
programs from the early 80's. I remember those - and how glad we were
to get them! Back in the early Oscar days (early 70's) we didn't have
computers. We tracked satellites by hand on maps of the U.S. (or the
world). Those of us who were broke (i.e. college students) covered the
maps with Saran Wrap or similar; the more affluent had the maps under a
sheet of plexiglass - both so we could write on them with wax pens then
"erase" them later. Even the rudimentary text programs were great -
input your lat/long and the keps and you could get a minute-by-minute
azimuth and elevation to the satellite. How great it was!

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