Re: PPASINP

Bart De Pontieu (BDP@MPEPL)
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:46:49 +0100 (CET) 

Jim Varney writes:

>That is the case now.  You only need to enter Setup once.  PPASINP writes
>a small PPASINP.INI file to your Windows directory, saves all of the
>Setup information there, and reads it back with each use.

I'm wondering what your program does (or plans to do) with the location
information in the Setup information window. It's not part of the PPAS
official format. Just anticipating a DRAINP.EXE ? :-)

>>Once a file is chosen to write your obs to, can it be the default file 
>>when you next choose APPEND?
>
>The program is now configured so that the first time you append the file
>with each session, you must navigate to the file.  With each append after
>that for a given input session, the Save File box will go to the path
>and file that was last appended.

I'm not sure if it's possible or useful, but SatFlash users may find it
useful to have a default extension of '.OBS'. [Try out SatFlash sometime,
Jim, and you'll see what I mean]

>>Any chance you could adapt it for DRA? 
>
>Yes.  That shouldn't be too tough, including Bjoern's suggestion
>of adding a field for the time signal.  But before I do this, are you 
>completely comfortable with the DRA reporting format as it stands now?

Let me see. I guess it would me more comfortable for people
if the first two lines were fit into one (PPAS-style date, time and name of
satellite).

What would the DRA observers think about this (new) format:

82- 40 J 95-01-29 01:52:55.55 BDP -30.3138 -97.8661 1234 45

COSPAR   DATE     TIME 1ST    OBS LATITUDE LONGIT. HEIGHT NUMBER OF TIMINGS
                  FLASH       ER   
                              VER


where negative longitudes are west of Greenwich, height is in meter.

The rest of the format is the same, i.e.:
  0.00  0
 18.09  1
 37.51  2
 56.43  3
 74.77  4 
 92.55  5 
112.45  6 
131.68  7
149.52  8
169.10  9
186.97  10

Let me know what you think, observers!

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Cheers,
    Bart
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