Each profile keeps its own ground station location, radio, rotator and tracking settings -- pick the one for wherever you're operating from. Switching profiles disconnects the radio and rotator (the new site's serial ports are almost certainly different). Your satellite selection and custom satellite database are shared across all profiles.
Passes climbing at or above the flip elevation are flown with elevation continuing past 90° instead of a fast azimuth reversal near zenith -- see the flip indicator in Select Target and the Tracking card. 80° is a reasonable default; lower it if your rotator's azimuth slew is on the slow side.
kb3gtn Positioner: found automatically over Bluetooth by its
advertised name -- no port/baud to set.
G-5500: connects over a GS-232B-compatible rotor controller's serial
port.
RT-21 AZ/EL: two Green Heron RT-21 controllers, one serial port each
(azimuth + elevation), same baud (4800 by default). Beta,
not yet hardware-tested.
For the serial rotators, Enable/E-STOP and Home in Rotator Control
don't apply (always live once powered, no separate homing step) and
are hidden when one is selected.
Applied at the start of every pass the console tracks. Pre-pass lead: how early the antenna repositions to the pass start. Track step (Direct method only): how often the target position is recomputed and re-commanded. Buffered playback uploads the whole pass to the kb3gtn Positioner's firmware (not available on the G-5500). Stow: where the antenna goes after LOS, and where the Rotator window's Stow button sends it -- leave blank for AZ 0 / EL 90 (and no auto-stow after a pass).
Operation mode sets how the console's CAT control starts for each new target. Manual: the radio is tuned once when you pick an operating mode, then left alone until you press Push Doppler. Auto: Doppler-corrected frequencies are pushed to the radio continuously for the whole pass. You can still switch it per-pass from the console.
IC-9700: connects over the radio's built-in [USB] port (CI-V over
USB-serial, no Icom driver needed on Linux). CI-V address only needs
to change from the factory default (A2) if you have multiple CI-V
devices sharing one bus.
TS-2000: connects over the radio's COM port (Kenwood CAT, plain ASCII
commands) -- no CI-V-style address, Kenwood doesn't use bus
addressing the same way.
Pulls the full active-satellite catalog from orbita.kb3gtn.us, not just the amateur group -- needed so any NORAD ID you add below resolves, regardless of how it is classified. Which satellites actually show up in Select Target is controlled by the curated + user radio databases below, not by this refresh.
Orbita's bundled database, shipped in the app -- read-only here (see the project README for how to regenerate it). Add an entry below under "Your Satellites" to override any of these.
| NORAD ID | Name | RX (MHz) | RX Mode | TX (MHz) | TX Mode | Tone (Hz) | Invert | Notes |
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Satellites/modes you've added or corrected yourself. A user entry for a NORAD ID fully replaces the bundled curated one's modes (not merged mode-by-mode) -- if the bundled data is wrong or incomplete for something, add your own entry here with all the modes it should have, instead of waiting for an upstream fix.
| NORAD ID | Name | Modes | Notes |
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| Mode Name | RX (MHz) | RX Mode | TX (MHz) | TX Mode | Tone (Hz) | Invert |
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