Rockwell (WW1X)

Developer at iOS apps WaveGuide and SOTA Goat, portable ops, Summits On The Air, DIY

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New in https://t.co/wGHntagmWc: a more-fully-featured page to create and edit activations, and support for those special 2-grid and 4-grid activations.

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Added https://t.co/wGHntafP6E support to specify uplink OR downlink for alert frequencies. And a couple more sats thanks to @2m0sql. Will probably tackle multi-grid alerts next.

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@FG8OJ @M0SKN_SA5IKN @2m0sql Good to know. Guess I’d have to add user location elevation too

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Updated the https://t.co/wGHntafP6E page layouts to be MUCH more usable on mobile. There’s room for improvement, but at least it’s not totally busted any more.

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@M0SKN_SA5IKN @2m0sql Can people really work negative passes? Up to how many degrees?

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@DK9JC That’s my secret: you’re all beta testers.

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@DK9JC Makes sense! Let me chew on that.

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Also added match scoring percentages to https://t.co/wGHntafP6E alerts to help weed through them. It’s based on your preferences for sat minimum elevation, and mode. See account settings for sliders to tweak it.

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Added az/el calculations when the sat is at its shortest total path between two locations, to give you an idea of potential best-case operating conditions.

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@k2mts No dice! But I was wildly waving around my Elk while tethered to the radio and my laptop so not ideal operating conditions.

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@k2mts Thanks! Now to get an actual sat station together here…

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@amsat_sm @k5em @FG8OJ @SeanKutzko @2m0sql @KJ4M_R @KE0PBR @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat @sat_match All set! I added a button to view the pass in SatMatch from both locations.

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@2m0sql @KJ4M_R @SeanKutzko @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat Ah, a literal edge-case. :P I would say pick the closest 6-digit grid for calculation purposes, but post all the grids in the comment.

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@2m0sql @KJ4M_R @SeanKutzko @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat Yeah, duh, good point. Okay, I'm convinced. :)

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@2m0sql @SeanKutzko @KJ4M_R @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat Just to clarify… when posting an alert, the user should specify a single frequency and whether it's uplink (TX) or downlink (RX), is that right? Does it make sense to specify both (probably not)?

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@2m0sql @KJ4M_R @SeanKutzko @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat No apologies! This is all really good stuff.

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@2m0sql @KJ4M_R @SeanKutzko @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat It's using the 6-char grid for calculations, even it only displays the 4-char grid sometimes. So it should be accurate enough. Can you elaborate on VUCC? I'm not following.

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@2m0sql @KJ4M_R @SeanKutzko @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat I intentionally left out the grid square because IMO you should be exchanging it over the air.

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@SeanKutzko @KJ4M_R @KE0PBR @FG8OJ @scottN1AIA @WW2DX @GridMasterHeat @2m0sql Thanks! Mobile layout was slowing me down, so I punted on it, but clearly much-needed! Shouldn't be too hard.