For work Gnome- it connects to a receiver that captures realtime satellite data as the satellite passes. I can then view raw weather images or sea surface temperatures.There is other software that is newer but it only works with that companies receiver.I already have the receiver & ariel for this one & to replace isn't too cheap a move.
I think i tried that route before & the problem was the exe knew nothing about the newer Noaa's (18 + 19)& wouldn't add the satellite to the "monitor & receive" part of the prog.(top right - "add satellite")
The elements.dat file - i update/replace every couple of weeks - Atm to get the prog to receive the newer sats i rename the newer sats to older sats in the elements.dat file & have the newer sats frequency set in the CFG file so i got a way around it so i can receive them but its ugly.
Just thought that if someone was wizard enough to tweak into the prog Noaa 18 + 19 so it would work straight off the elements dat file it would save a bit of mucking around.
Within the prog i can create new .CFG file with correct name,freq's & settings,that's no problem, but the link between elements.dat & the exe seems to be the issue - the exe reads the elements.dat but doesn't know nothing about N18/N19 to accept them to be added.
Hope that's understandable.
This is what the elements.dat file has in it - http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/weather.txt
Each 2 line sentence is related to the sat name above it.