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Registration
The standard version of WXtrack is free of charge for amateur and educational use, but you must register if:
you use the program commercially
you make a profit from using the program
you wish technical support from me
you wish to access the advanced facilities
You can also register if you wish to say: "Thank you" for the program. You can register WXtrack here.
Extra Facilities in the Registered Version
The registered version offers a range of extra facilities designed both to make the program easier to use for regular users, and to extend the facilities offered.
Command-line mode options are enabled
A screen-lock function is available, to prevent accidental changes of satellite or ground station.
The details of the location indicated by the mouse co-ordinates are shown - latitude and longitude, range and bearing from the home location, satellite azimuth and elevation from the cursor location.
User-defined ground stations may be displayed, and quickly switched with a mouse click on the World View tab.
A Satellite Summary form is available by right-clicking the World Map display
You can save a screen snapshot of the world display after every update
You can display some times in local time rather than UTC
The scan parameters for individual satellites can be altered
Details about the selected pass are available as hints on the Setup tab
You can rename a wave file to match a selected pass using Shift-Click on the "Map from pass" button (on the Setup tab). You would want to do this if you recorded passes on an external recorder, and the file names do not match the pass times.
Kepler data can be saved and printed.
Kepler data can be reloaded automatically for continuous unattended operation.
You can control the step time for displaying Pass Details on the View, Ephemeris dialog.
Radio control is possible with the WiSP DDE tracker interface software.
UNI_TRAC can select radio mode based on AO-40 mean anomaly value
HRPT channel selection is possible with the Götz Romahn/Bob Barnes CX6DD interface variant.
The Tracker Parking option is enabled.
The Tracker Test command is considerably enhanced by adding manual positioning, RA/Dec, and Clarke Belt tabs. This allows full manual control over the positioning of an antenna at specific azimuth/elevation or RA/Dec co-ordinates, checking of flip-mode etc. The operations have been developed in conjunction with people who are commissioning antennas for satellite tracking operations. The Clarke Belt function gives quick access to the pointing angles for any geostationary satellite defined by its location along the Clarke Belt.
The Large Text tracker option can be customised in font and screen location.
For more accurate antenna tracking, WXtrack can be set to look ahead a number of seconds from the current position, thus compensating for any lag in positioning the antenna.
Satellites may be prioritised, and automatic switching between satellites is enabled.
You can restrict antenna tracking activity to just the passes in the pass list.
The GPS prediction capability is enabled.
The program will read you current location from a standard GPS source over a serial link (e.g. COM1). This is ideal for mobile users.
More information can be displayed, for example the Frequencies panel, and some ISS options.