Customising Gpredict
To add a new ground station click on the
Add New
button. This will bring
up the dialogue shown on figure 2.6 with all fields initially empty. You can
proceed by doing the following:
1. Enter a short name for the ground station using the characters a..z,
A..Z, 0..9, hyphen and underscore. This name will also be used as file
name and it must be unique
2
.
2. Enter the coordinates by either:
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Manually entering the latitude and longitude or
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Entering the Maidenhead locator square or
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Selecting a location from the built-in list. Click the
Select
button
right next to the Location field to get a list of major cities around
the World.
1. If you wish, you can fill out the optional fields, too:
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Description.
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Location.
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Altitude.
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Weather station.
2 If you enter the name of an existing observer the data will be overwritten with
no further warnings.
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Figure 3.2: The table showing the existing ground stations.
