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- GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES (NORTH AMERICA)
- v 2.0
-
- This program is an adaptation from the public domain program SYNCSAT.
- Unfortunately, the public domain program does not run without BASIC
- support, and the interface is unfinished.
-
- I have rewritten this program in Turbo-Pascal and have changed the
- format such that much of the "interactive" queries have been
- eliminated.
-
- The program will now simply ask you for your geographical longitude and
- latitude. The pointing angles at the location of the satellite dish
- looking at the common C-Band and Ku-Band North American Satellites are
- then displayed. C-band are bright and Ku band data are low intensity.
-
- This display visually allows you to see the graceful arc in the sky that
- these satellites occupy.
-
- The program is really quite simple and is intended to allow one to see
- the viewing angles of a home satellite dish at various locations
- throughout North America.
-
- The program uses GEOSAT.DAT to read the list of current satellites. This
- is an ASCII file and can be modified, although more than 24 entries will
- cause the display to scroll too much. The first column is the satellite
- name, second column is the code name, the third colum is the orbital
- longitude and the last column is the C- or Ku-Band designation. Be sure
- that this file is located in the same directory as the primary
- GEOSAT.EXE file.
-
- Altough donated to the public domain again, please let me know if you
- have found this program useful or mathematically accurate.
-
- Philip Miller
- 32680 Coast Ridge Drive
- Carmel, California
- October 1990
-