New User: GPS Satellite Prediction

[ben]

Hi everyone,

I am a new user to GPREDICT, and I wanted to use it to see the GPS satellite coverage of my location to maximise the effectiveness of some swift piksi GPS antennas. It seems like this would be a pretty common new user kinda task so I was looking for any kind of tutorial\best practices someone might have created to do this.

Thanks,
Ben-

[ben]

NM - I figured it out! =D

Is there a way to add more granular or have a larger polar image to get a better sense for where the satelites are in a alti-azimuth sense?

Also, is there a way to give GPREDICT a time and have it show the predicted coverage?

[csete]

Hi Ben,

I was looking for any kind of tutorial\best practices someone might have created to do this

There is a user manual that explain what gpredict can do, but it is a generic introduction, not application specific tutorial. See Gpredict - Browse /Gpredict/1.3 at SourceForge.net

Is there a way to add more granular or have a larger polar image

You can make the window as large as your monitor, in fact, even larger, so the answer is yes.

is there a way to give GPREDICT a time and have it show the predicted coverage

The module popup menu has an entry called “Time controller”. Here you can set an arbitrary time.