You may also wish to select the Synchronize PC clock when Orbitron starts checkbox if your PC isĦ. Setup screen click on the Time Synch tab, and click on the Synchronize PC clock button to automatically synchronize the time. Orbitron comes with a method to synchronize your PC time to the NTP servers, which provide accurate time. In order to have Orbitron accurately track the satellites it is important that your Windows PC time is accurate. Setup screen, then you can get to it by clicking on the Setup icon, in the main Orbitron tab.ĥ. Running Orbitron in Administrator mode is important, as otherwise the TLE files may not be able to be written to. The TLE filesĬontain the satellite orbit information and will need to be periodically updated every few days. Orbitron will download the new TLE files. Click on the update button, which is the icon with a globe and lightning bolt. You will probably alsoīe initially presented with a TLE file update screen. Press Alt+Enter to exit full screen if you wish. Open Orbitron in Administrator Mode (if in Windows Vista/7/8), by right clicking it and selecting Run as Administrator. Within the tags add the line at the end.Ĥ. With notepad or another text editor open Plugins.xml. Extract all the plugin files to the SDR# directory. Download the SDR# Orbitron DDE tracking and scheduler plugin from (note that this site is in Russian, so please use Google Translate if necessary). Also, although not entirely necessaryįor the RTL-SDR, Orbitron will also help to compensate for the satellite frequency drift that occurs due to the doppler effect.Ģ. This is great for unmanned monitoring stations. By using a program called Orbitron, SDR# can be made to automatically start and tune to NOAA and other satellites as they appear on your horizon.
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