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by K7NHB on January 22, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Most of the software I've looked at gives me a good idea of where a specific satellite is in the moment. Or when/where its next 10 passes will occur. I'm looking for something slightly different. I'm looking for "At this moment, where are the satellites?" So if it is 2 PM on a Sunday afternoon, I would want to know which, if any, Satellites were in view or would soon be in view. Please advise if there is software that provides a Here's where they are now view, rather than requiring me to lookup each satellite one by one to see which is or will soon be in "view". Thank you and 73, Paul

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by KG4RUL on January 22, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Satscape, when using the world map, shows all selected satellites in the active groups. It shows the footprint and orbit track of the currently selected satellite. It also provides an ETA MODE with a list of satellites that will be coming into view and their AOS times. I know of no program that would show tracks for all birds simultaneously.

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by KB9CRY on January 23, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Nova can be set up that way to show more than one bird at a time, either in a table form and/or footprints on the globe.

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by K7NHB on January 23, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Thank you - that was what I was looking for. I didn't need ALL satellites, though that was probably how I worded it. I was looking for "What's coming up" without having to poll each satellite individually. Thank you and 73, Paul

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by N3CRT on January 24, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
SatPC32 has a countdown display in the ACCY menu that will tell you how long until the next AOS for a list of satellites that you select for the program to keep track of in real time. It also tells you the max elevation for the next pass on each bird. Very useful for clearing your schedule to work some contacts.

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by K5PHW on January 25, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Orbitron also works well.

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by KC8RPD on January 25, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
gpredict, runs on linux (I just got it to run yesterday), has a variety of views, the polar view, centered on your QTH, tells you time to AOS and the sat.

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by KG4YXR on February 29, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Orbitron as mentioned earlier has a boatload of features and you can easily see what birds are headed your way !!

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