NEC PC-8201A Laptop and Tandy Model 100
The PC-8201A is an 8 bit laptop computer with an 8 line 40 character LCD display. It has built in Microsoft BASIC and Non-Volatile RAM. It is very similar to the Tandy Model 100 Laptop.
Realtime Moontracking for EME
This
program written in BASIC, gives a real time display of the
moon's position in Azimuth, Elevation as well as
Declination. The doppler shift of 144MHz echoes is also
shown in Hz. If the moon is below the horizon then the
display is shown in inverse video. The Phase of the moon
and the number of days since Perigee are also displayed.
Adapted from a moon tracking program by:- Lance Collister
(W7GJ) modified by Jay Liebmann (K5JL). Published
originally in Eimac EME Notes. Bulletin
AS-49-13.
Additional
'Moon Age' and 'Days Since Perigee' and 'Doppler Shift'
were added from articles in 'Ham Radio Today'July 84 by
Charles Suckling (G3WDG).
Program is Freeware, feel free to alter it, provided you
rename it and reference it to my release.
Download a listing of
moontrk.do for
the
NEC PC-8201A
Tandy
Model 100 Computer
owners - there is a version of my program which was
produced by Clifford Buttschardt K7RR
(Cliff died in 2006 - a sad loss to the amateur radio
community).
Download a listing of
emetandy.do for
the
Tandy TRS80/100
Notes
The computer's time and date
must be set
to
UTC (GMT).
Your station location (Lat/Lon) must be edited in line 588
588
L6=3:U6=29:L5=56:U5=4:REM L6 IS LON DEGREES WEST, U6 IS LON
MINUTES WEST,
L5 IS LATITUDE DEGREES NORTH,U5 IS LATITUDE MINUTES NORTH
The
default location is GM4JJJ's at 3 degrees, 29 minutes West.
56 degrees, 4 minutes North.
If you want to, you may change to your Callsign in line 587
587
W$="GM4JJJ"
Known
Bugs:
Year >1999, this
is now partially fixed. Because the NEC clock does not
supply the Century information, the software assumes that
it is the 20th Century. LINE 760 has been ammended to
assume that years < 90 are in the 21st century other
wise they are 20th Century.
Note that since this software calculates the day of the
week itself all should be OK. However because the computer
also calculates the day of the week and assumes that it is
in the 20th century, it will think that 2000 is 1900 and
therefore not a leap year and will skip a day at February
29th 2000. You will have to reset the computer clock to the
correct date.
David Anderson GM4JJJ