About the MoonTracker project.
The project started early 2014 when I tried to find a way to get auto elevation of my antennas.
For a long time I am using F1EHN sw to rotate my antennas in azimuth and manually an actuator for elevation.
Was inspired of his world map with the moving moon curve in real and planning date and time.
I wanted to create something similar, but my knowledge of programming was limited to old Qbasic.
My wife's sisters son Jonny is an experienced programmer and helped me from the start.
We decided to use C# (C Sharp) for both of us a new pgm language, with lot of fun learning and play with it.
He found a not so detailed world map, but with correct dimension, and made the moon and sun curves on it.
Jonny is not a ham, so I start to include ham related things like maps, DXCC list, fields and grids.
The Sky map is a copy from F1EHN's sw and he kindly promised me to use it in my sw.
Our goal was to make a sw for tracking the moon and that's why we gave it the name MoonTracker.
With data from the sw to an Arduino hardware was the idea to track my elevation.
For a while there was a working version, but we decided later to separate the programs.
During the time I have added a lot features specially for EME, like Common moon and Month EME.
To keep track of worked DXCC's and grids, it now include a Log program with easy import from other logs.
In my old basic log I added an ADIF file export function, to see all my VHF grids and DXCC's on the Worldmap.
Added also a special map of USA to show worked grids or N0UK in logged on line.
I know many EME'rs work on the HF bands, so I added possible import from those bands too.
Wayne VK5APN gave me the idea to use the N0UK logger to let me know when a new user is logging in.
Later I added an alert ping, when a user with a not worked grid was logged in.
I found it very easy to instead of the sound of a ping the use of voice could be used.
It was fun to play with that, and of course the sound can be set to off.
The sw is still under construction and new ideas and comments are welcome.
There is a lot to discover and play with for fun, and maybe you find it as a useful tool.
I think most of needed EME data in real and planning time is to find here.
The application will be installed on the hard disk and no changing in any PC registry and internal settings
Data is saved in the MoonTracker directory.
73 and Good Luck / Rune SM5CUI
For a long time I am using F1EHN sw to rotate my antennas in azimuth and manually an actuator for elevation.
Was inspired of his world map with the moving moon curve in real and planning date and time.
I wanted to create something similar, but my knowledge of programming was limited to old Qbasic.
My wife's sisters son Jonny is an experienced programmer and helped me from the start.
We decided to use C# (C Sharp) for both of us a new pgm language, with lot of fun learning and play with it.
He found a not so detailed world map, but with correct dimension, and made the moon and sun curves on it.
Jonny is not a ham, so I start to include ham related things like maps, DXCC list, fields and grids.
The Sky map is a copy from F1EHN's sw and he kindly promised me to use it in my sw.
Our goal was to make a sw for tracking the moon and that's why we gave it the name MoonTracker.
With data from the sw to an Arduino hardware was the idea to track my elevation.
For a while there was a working version, but we decided later to separate the programs.
During the time I have added a lot features specially for EME, like Common moon and Month EME.
To keep track of worked DXCC's and grids, it now include a Log program with easy import from other logs.
In my old basic log I added an ADIF file export function, to see all my VHF grids and DXCC's on the Worldmap.
Added also a special map of USA to show worked grids or N0UK in logged on line.
I know many EME'rs work on the HF bands, so I added possible import from those bands too.
Wayne VK5APN gave me the idea to use the N0UK logger to let me know when a new user is logging in.
Later I added an alert ping, when a user with a not worked grid was logged in.
I found it very easy to instead of the sound of a ping the use of voice could be used.
It was fun to play with that, and of course the sound can be set to off.
The sw is still under construction and new ideas and comments are welcome.
There is a lot to discover and play with for fun, and maybe you find it as a useful tool.
I think most of needed EME data in real and planning time is to find here.
The application will be installed on the hard disk and no changing in any PC registry and internal settings
Data is saved in the MoonTracker directory.
73 and Good Luck / Rune SM5CUI