![]() ![]() I love the many useful features of this program: (1) 2D and 3D color screens, (2) awesome automatic doppler shift and a fine tune shift that you can control, (3) Time shift slider that allows you to see a pass before it gets to you so you can test your hardware (radio and rotators) (4) Easy data entry for the satellites you are tracking (5) Provision to allows an output frequency shift via an external RF converter with still doing the correct doppler shift (6) colorful display. I have been using this product at my home satellite tracking station and at our school's satellite tracking station for several years. ![]() If you own a Mac and do Satellite Tracking this is THE program you need to get. Professional Satellite Tracking Program for MACs Read more about my experience with these two programs at What a great combination of two superb programs. But the great feature for me is using the log window to record all your QSO information and then press "log it" and it's all entered into MacLoggerDX. Plus, it takes care of many things that you need to do manually with SatPC32. MacDoppler combined with MacLoggerDX makes it all happen.Īs many have stated in these reviews, MacDoppler is superb with its stellar user interface. But I longed for a simple way to move satellite QSO data into my logging program. When I started working satellites, I installed SatPC32, which works just fine and is the standard program in this area. I've always loved MacLoggerDX and continued to use it as my main database combinging all contacts from various programs. Thanks, Dale, for all of your efforts both with the AppleScript as well as with Ham Nation.I'm currently moving my ham station back to Apple OS after several years doing N1MM+ and other Windows programs. Archived podcasts are also available at TWIT.TV/hn at anytime and the video segments are also available at. This may require you to be a member of the LinuxHam group on Yahoo Groups, so if you are not a member and desire the file, feel free to email me (K3DCW) directly (info at QRZ.com) and I’ll be happy to send you a copy of the AppleScript file.Īs an aside, besides being a fan of Fldigi and MacLoggerDX, Dale spends some of his time every other week hosting the video segment on Ham Nation which can be seen at 8pm CDT on TWIT.TV/live. The AppleScript file can be downloaded from. Finally, Dale wanted to demonstrate how to pull all the pieces of the puzzle together into one solution and to encourage others to develops the skills necessary for this type of project. Especially important in the documentation is the proper methods to get environmental variables from Fldigi and direct them to the appropriate AppleScript dictionary entries in other Mac programs. Besides the obvious one of wanting to automate the logging from Fldigi to MacLoggerDX, other goals included embedding the documentation into the script so that everything would be in one location. Full documentation is included within the AppleScript and it is viewable in AppleScript editor.ĭale says that he had several goals when taking on this task. As it is an AppleScript, it should be easily modifiable to do the same for other logging programs that support AppleScript, such as Aether or RUMlog. With some help from others, and building upon the work for KJ6MSJ and VA3ZTF, he was able to finally make this work and has released the final product to everyone. ![]() These macro tags allow the execution of external scripts from within a Fldigi macro, such as a you might use to automatically log a QSO after sending your final 73 and SK message. Earlier this month, Dale took on the task of trying to get Fldigi to properly execute an AppleScript to write saved log entries to MacLoggerDX via the macro tags within Fldigi. On other OS’s, this may take the form of a Python script or some small Bash script in Linux, but proper execution of AppleScript has been difficult at times to figure out.Įnter Dale Puckett (K0HYD). However, Fldigi has been able to support execution of external scripts for some time now. Due to its nature as a non-Cocoa application, Fldigi has not been able to benefit from AppleScript’s features and capabilities. Among many other capabilities, AppleScript can be used to automate importing of logs from programs such as CocoaModem or to automate upload/download from eQSL or LoTW and it is in these areas we see it most often applied by amateur radio software. Much of the popular amateur radio software on OS X, such as Aether, MacLoggerDX, CocoaModem and RUMlog, has supported AppleScript for years. AppleScript® is one of the many features of OS X that can be used to add so much functionality to your computer.
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