I keep setting my location to the right coordinates and the preview is correct, then after a refresh it changes my latitude coordinate to a minus number and so puts me in the atlantic ocean

SatNOGS Software
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Edit 4:
Ignore me, pretty sure the raspberry pi had different coordinates set.

I set my latitude to:

51.591

and longitude to:

-2.527

When I click apply, the preview correctly shows where I am.

However, after refreshing the page, it shows the middle of the South Atlantic ocean, between South America and Africa. I then go edit again, and it has added a minus in front of my latitude. How do I fix this?

Edit: If I only enter a latitude of 51, it works.

Edit 2: No, it made it minus and put the decimals back.

Edit 3: It only seems to happen when I click “predict passes.” It appears to be setting it to the initial information of the station, and I probably had it wrong when I first set it. I will try creating a new station tomorrow.

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Indeed every time the station asks for jobs from network it also updates the longitude and latitude. The concept behind that is to have a way to update the network about the position of stations that move from place to place.

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Hello,

Facing the same issue, trying to change the Lat/long coordinates the new ones are took after saving but restored to the previous after a short while.

The maiden grid locator is wrong and I’m not able to edit it to the right one either.

I believe the effect in all major counts is small as the position being shown is some 20 Km north of my true location, but I should be able to set my right coordinates nonetheless.
73 de Pedro, LU7DID

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Make sure the station has the same coordinates set as the website. The station’s coordinates overwrite those set on the website after a short while.

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I think it’s an inconsistency to behave this way but doing it locally fixed the issue.

Many thanks, Pedro, LU7DID

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I had the same problem, when entering the station coordinates via the Web template - the Latitude and Longitude seems to be confused.

However, I saw it updated from the configuration settings of the SatNOGS client station coordinates after a little while and the confusion is there.
When entering my real longitude of 49.859 N into the station latitude setting and my real latitude of 8.659 E into the station longitude setting it worked-out fine:

“configuration”: {
“satnogs_antenna”: “rx”,
“satnogs_api_token”: “[redacted]”,
“satnogs_rx_samp_rate”: “1.792e6”,
“satnogs_soapy_rx_device”: “driver=rtlsdr”,
“satnogs_station_elev”: “220”,
“satnogs_station_id”: “2504”,
“satnogs_station_lat”: “49.8592910”,
“satnogs_station_lon”: “8.6598246”

My station is now up and running in test mode with the right station coordinates!