Compatible software
The Satellite Encyclopedia winhelp edition is compatible with
some windows based software. This enables you to call your favorite satellite
reference from those fine products with a single keystrike! Here is a list of
those products with a description:
This is a shareware tracking program which offer numerous goodies to
ease your everyday monitoring. It handles an elements database and cares about
the updates. It provides a logbook and a callbook to hold your records. It also
provides antenna and propagation utilities.
You can get the full information on Logsat from
http://www.logsat.comtruc/
or contact Logsat by mail:
support@logsat.com
This is a satellite tool box gathering all you need to install a
satellite dish and design a reception station (from personal dish to ground
earth station). It can calculate link budgets (analog, digital, SCPC) so as all
kind of look angles. Moreover giving parameters of your reception station it
will tell you the diameter of the dish you need to get a signal. It is ready to
use with a database of towns around the globe.
You can get more information from here:
http://www.arrowe.co.uk/
(where a freeware version is available) or contact its author at
djsteph@arrowe.co.uk
This is a program for computing artificial Earth-satellite position and
visibility, with the Amateur Radio Satellite operator in mind. Quite simple to
use it can operate with several different calculation models. Moreover it is
freeware!
You can find the full documentation of Winorbit at
http://www.sat-net.com/winorbit/
so as download the software. You can contact its author at
cgregory@uiuc.edu