Logsat for Windows - Program description LogSat for Windows is a revolutionary satellite tracking program. It incorporates several utilities usually offered by separate programs:3D antenna radiation diagrams, graphs on ground wave propagation, logbook manager, locator converter and more. Features --------- - A toolbar like Word 6's (the one where a button description appears when the mouse is placed over a button). - Detailed, context sensitive, on line help. - Everything is multitasking. You can track satellites and print out satellite schedules while working on the DX cluster or writing a letter. - Nearly unlimited satellite database. - An unlimited (memory allowing...) number of satellite windows can be opened at the same time. Each window is independent from the others. - Each satellite window can show and track up to 2000 satellites all at once in real time! - Click on any track with the mouse and it will be highlited, with tracking data for that satellite appearing in the left portion of the window. - 5 different map projections are available (Mercator, Equidistant, Sinusoidal, Hammer, Orthographic). - Text tracking windows with fonts that auto-scale according to the window's size are available. Put it in a corner on your screen while you're doing packet radio to see with a glance what the sat situation is. - Alarms. When ANY satellite in ANY window becomes visible, the user will be warned. - Each window has 4 recorder-like buttons to control time: fast forward, rewind, play and pause. - Each window can be assigned a time and a date independently from the other windows. - When selecting satellites to track from the (sorted) satellite list, the satellites in acquisition at the moment will be marked. - The tracking data includes: azimuth, elevation, range, height, squint angle, mode, doppler effect, phase, UMD, eclipse, solar panel illumination factor, sun angle, orbit number, solar elevation, sub-satellite points, latitude and longitude, next AOS (or LOS), and the duration of acquisition on the next pass. - The maps can be 'traveled' with the mouse: the coordinates, locator, azimuth and distance from you home position to the point under the mouse cursor appear in a popup window. - The Keplerian elements can be easily updated with NASA or AMSAT style file formats. - With just a mouse click decide to leave thick or thin satellite trails, place sun terminators, color fill maps, select map colors, line styles and more. - Maps can be automatically centered on your QTH, or can self-center themselves on the satellite. All options are user-selectable. - World time zones can be displayed on maps allowing you to know with a glance who's awake and who's sleeping... - Support for non-standard time zones has been added. - 3D antenna radiation diagrams. - Graphs of an antenna's gain and input impedence in a given frequency range. - Graphs of an antenna's gain and input impedence in a given length range. - Graphs of the electring field and attenuation factor for ground wave propagation over the earth. Atmospheric refraction can be taken into account. - Graphs of the electring field and attenuation factor for ground wave diffracted around the earth. - An extremely easy and practical to use logbook manager for HAM radio operators. The country beeing connected can be shown on a map. - The logbook can be linked with a callbook. - A very simple to use locator to lat and longitude (and vice versa) converter. .......and more! LogSat v3.0 is shareware and may be freely distributed. The registered version ($39.95) supports the Kansas City Tracker rotor interface and features interactive sound tracking and response. See online help for details on features and ordering. LogSat is distributed by: LogSat Software Corporation 425 S.Chickasaw Tr., Suite 103 32825 Orlando, FLorida Orders only: 1-800 350 3871 Tel. (407) 275 0780 Fax (407) 275 275 2416 E-Mail: 76433.3715@compuserve.com For technical assistance the author can be contacted at: Roberto Franceschetti Via del Faro 19, Bacoli Naples, Italy 80070 E-Mail: 100412.2745@compuserve.com