A small editor is built-in to facilitate composing and addressing short text messages. Several status windows are available to monitor the progress of directory reception, file frames received, and upload progress, as well as general status messages from the satelite. MacPacSat also decodes and displays telemetry from the amateur satelites. This program has a friendly user interface, file flexibility, the ability to save decoded data and a feature to alert the user when a value is beyond a set of limits. Files saved with this or other communications programs can also be read in and decoded later.
Extensive documentation is included on the diskette.
UpDown is an Amateur Radio Satellite Operations Aid program. It provides Uplink to Downlink frequency conversions, technical data, history, beacon frequencies, modes available, and other useful information about the satellite. Provisions are included for the user to update the satellite information as he sees fit. It is written to run in an IBM compatible computer equipped with EGA or VGA graphics in color. In it's black and white mode, it will also run on CGA machines.