First of all, thanks for the excellent software, probably the best portable logging software at the moment. Personally, I tested several others but easiness and overall look of PoLo is unbeatable.
I am active on satellites, mostly portable. I understood that users cannot edit list of satellites, it has to be part of PoLo installation.
Changes in this list occur after new satellites are launched, which doesn’t happen often. Maybe once in 3 months or so.
If you need information or list of ham satellites, or any other help related to this, please let me know. It would be nice to have accurate list of satellites in PoLo.
Good luck with further development, keep up good work!
Ideally, it would be good if could filter satellite list in PoLo.
I may be wrong, but I believe that most of portable SAT operators use no more than 15-20 satellites.
SAT data (data about satellite position in Space, so called TLE – two line element) is updated on daily basis by NASA, NORAD, several other organizations. And there are several handy apps which takes care of it (automatically download data from relative sources). Some of them are: ISS Detector, Look4SAT, etc.
Hams probably don’t need another application which will tell them position of the satellite at this very moment. But what we need is a handy logging application. Maybe PoLo could use this TLE files, not in order to give an accurate position of satellite, but just to keep track about SAT names, current number of SATs, accurate SAT designators for LoTW, etc… https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=amateur&FORMAT=tle
Regarding ADIF data, for SAT QSOs there have to be PROP_MODE, SAT_NAME and BAND fields, to be valid for LoTW confirmation.
PROP_MODE is SATELLITE
SAT_NAME – satellite name
BAND – uplink frequency band
Topic/request maybe looks simple, but there is some workaround.
I am sorry but I cannot be helpful with any coding.
This is the minimum of info, and probably quite enough to satisfy logging.
Please check frequency charts for both FM and transponder satellites.
In PoLo, it would be good when user choose satellite by name (say, SO-50), frequency/band/mode to be adjusted accordingly (145.850/2M/FM).
Lists are not CSV, but anyway it changes rarely, when new satellite is launched (say, once in 3 months or so).
I can help with CSV, if you tell me how it should look like.
I think that good start for logging is that user choose satellite by name, and PoLo automatically pulls data about freq, band, mode, SAT_NAME, PROP_MODE (needed for correct ADIF export).
However, if I can ask you for one more change, could you add a new “NOTES.md” file, next to the satelites.json, explaining which data you ended up using, how you decided which satellites to add, maybe even a link to this discussion.
Just want to have some notes to help whomever has to do this again next time in 6 months.
I’m referring to this list 