Mitsubishi SRRM25ZE User Manual page 4

7.2.1 Rigctl....................................................................................................................... 53
7.2.2 Rotctl....................................................................................................................... 55
7.2.3 Rigctld and Rotcld................................................................................................... 55
7.3 Configuring your Devices in Gpredict............................................................................56
7.3.1 Radio Configuration................................................................................................ 57
7.3.2 Antenna Rotator Configuration...............................................................................58
7.4 Controlling your Devices with Gpredict..........................................................................59
7.4.1 The Radio Control Window......................................................................................59
7.4.2 The Rotator Control Window...................................................................................62
8 Creating Custom Layouts..............................................................................67
9 Glossary.........................................................................................................69
List of Tables
Table 3.1: Most common format codes.................................................................................26
Table 3.2: The not so common time format codes................................................................27
Table 3.3: Examples of time format strings..........................................................................28
Table 4.1: Data field availability in the different views........................................................32
Table 7.1: Most common rigctl command line options.........................................................55
Table 7.2: Operating modes of the radio controller..............................................................62
Table 7.3: Operating modes of the rotator controller...........................................................66
List of Figures
Figure 1.1: Functional overview of a satellite tracking program...........................................7
Figure 2.1: The default main window showing a module with three views. ........................11
Figure 2.2: The four different layouts in gpredict................................................................12
Figure 2.3: The module pop-up............................................................................................. 13
Figure 2.4: The time controller window...............................................................................13
Figure 2.5: The module configuration window.....................................................................15
Figure 2.6: The ground station editor window.....................................................................16
Figure 2.7: The module properties editor.............................................................................17
Figure 2.8: Satellite popup................................................................................................... 19
Figure 2.9: Data presented about the next upcoming pass..................................................20
Figure 2.10: The sky at a glance........................................................................................... 21
Figure 3.1: The preferences dialogue...................................................................................24
Figure 3.2: The table showing the existing ground stations.................................................29
Figure 4.1: The list view illustrating the auto-sort feature...................................................33
Figure 4.2: The map view using the default settings............................................................35
Figure 4.3: The polar view.................................................................................................... 37
Figure 4.4: Polar View popup............................................................................................... 37
Figure 4.5: The single-satellite view.....................................................................................40
Figure 4.6: The upcoming passes view.................................................................................40
Figure 5.1: Parameters that control pass predictions..........................................................41
Figure 5.2: Configuration options for multiple pass predictions..........................................43
Figure 5.3: Configuration options for single pass predictions..............................................44
Figure 5.4: The sky at a glance............................................................................................. 44
Figure 5.5: Configuration options for the Sky at a glance function......................................45
Figure 6.1: Configuration options for TLE updates..............................................................48
Figure 6.2: Selecting a directory to update the TLE data from............................................50
Figure 7.1: Radio and rotator settings..................................................................................56
Figure 7.2: Radio setup........................................................................................................ 57
Figure 7.3: Rotator setup..................................................................................................... 58
Figure 7.4: The radio control interface.................................................................................59
Figure 7.5: The rotator control interface..............................................................................62
Figure 8.1: A 3x3 layout grid................................................................................................ 67
Figure 8.2: The layout generated by the sequence 1;0;3;0;2;0;0;2;2;3................................68