Request: Pass Scheduling

[Cozmo]

I'm sure this is on the roadmap somewhere already but it would be really nice to be able to schedule monitoring of upcoming sat passes. I'd love to be able to click a checkbox next to a few passes on different sats and have some kind of schedule window that shows what I have selected, and allow me to choose which sat has higher priority in case of conflicts.  

When there's 4 sats sending SSTV at the same time I can only pick one to tune to while I'm gone. It could just use whichever transmitter you already have selected for each of those sats.. it doesn't need to record anything for now since the virtual audio cable going to whatever decoding app can take care of that already.. though recording the passes to either audio or I/Q wav files would be great too as a next step.

Anyway, I always see screenshots of people using ancient looking tracking programs and it makes me wonder what they do that skyroof doesn't other than maybe people don't know skyroof exists.  Keep up the good work.

[deanko55]

My personal friend Manfred, XQ6FOD, is fairly famous for making the old FODTRACK program in the early 90's for DOS, and then later for Windows versions.  But almost no one knows that he also made an unpublished companion software called FODSKED which I think does exactly what you are referring to.  During the past few days, in his location he had several good passes of the 4 SSTV satellites, but they were during the night!!   So he set it up and worked the various satellites automatically while he was sleeping.  He sent about 8 or 10 images to me that he recorded of the sats that were transmitting SSTV.  I think he got 2 or 3 of the four sats.  The images were not perfect because he lives on the side of the Andes mountains and has trees in all directions in addition to the east being totally blocked by the mountain.  It requires a 4WD to get to his home, and I have visited him there on multiple occasions. 73, Dean, PU7MOJ