[Qcwa] Getting the Sat Bug again

[J Craswell]

Well I remember all the trouble I had figuring out the Orbits and when I was
"supposed" to hear Oscar 6 and 7 when I first got the bug.  I downloaded a
program called Traksat and plugged in the orbital elements.  What a neat
show this program puts on.  You can see the earth with the sunlite
terminator and what the coverage should be.  If you set it to "delta" time
you can see the sat zipping around a days worth of orbits in a minute or so.
Much more fun that the Oscarlocator which I thought was a round slipstick on
acid.

Well what I really wanted to report is that there are a lot of sats out
there and I'm going to see about hearing (at least) a few of these.  Anyone
want to sked at some late hour on UO-14 or our QCWA brother Oscar 7???

73 de Jay W0VNE