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WG3K > ANS 14.07.24 03:31l 15 Lines 1588 Bytes #18 (0) @ AMSAT
BID : ANS-196.5
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Subj: Updating Keps in SatPC32 - An Update from DK1TB
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Sent: 240714/0147Z 6154@WG3K.#SMD.MD.USA.NOAM LinBPQ6.0.24
Erich Eichmann, DK1TB, SatPC32 author offers this update:
"The SatPC32 Update Keps feature doesn't work with https links for TLE files. That would require changes of the source code and maybe requires a new Delphi version for me. I will care about that but that will at least take time and at present I don't have much time for the hobby.
"But all https websites can be accessed also with http. They are not "secure" sites but that is meaningless with websites that contain Keps. Therefore use http in the aux. file Celestrak.SQF for AMSAT and Celestrak TLE (Two Line Elements) files, as described by Charlie, AJ9N, see below. With that modification the Download Keps function works.
"Also, the https links can be accessed with your browser, of course. Enter the links into the address line of the browser. So, you can download the Keps and save them in the SatPC32 data folder 'Kepler' (see path to that folder in the footline of menu 'Satellites').
"By the way - Meanwhile my website supports also SSL. You can access it with https://www.dk1tb.de and https://www.dk1tb-2.de.
"Also, SatPC32 supports now, besides TLE files, the new formats for Keps files XML, KVN and CSV. Celestrak publishes the Keps files also in these formats. The SatPC32 UpdateKeps feature works with these files also when downloaded from https sites (I don't know why that is different versus the TLE files). Therefore you can use https in Celestrack SQF with these files such as https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=amateur&FORMAT=xml."
[ANS thanks Erich Eichmann for the above information.]
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