93-56B/#22788, U?? 2 Rk
Jay Respler (jrespler@injersey.com)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 03:44:35 -0400 (EDT)
>So, is #22788/93-56B called UHF 2 Rk or UFO 2 Rk or what...?
>From the official Sat Sit Rept:
22788
1993-056 B 930903 26.5619 223.8 27.0 11435 232 ATLAS 1 CENTAUR R/B(1)
22787
1993-056 A 930903 0.3130 1436.0 3.8 35796 35775 UFO 2 (USA 95)
>If the formal flash reports weren't such a royal pain the ###,
>
>-- if only the data would fit into the @&#%&$#&@ PPAS format! And if
>only it weren't such a royal pain in the ### to do those
>@$#@%@#$ reports.... It takes me 30 minutes to *try* to do 2
>of them correctly. Sheesh!
I don't find them that much trouble since I set up this format as a Word
Perfect file. I just call up this sample file and fill in the new info in the
spaces under the headings.
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PPAS format:
object obs.date Time UT pass-lgth Pd Remarks-to-col-80
yy-nnncc yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.t JHR sss.t s.t #pd ss.tht
89- 5 A 95-01-02 02:41 accuracy^^ col^50 <---Sample line
<--Line to fill in with new info.
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Jay Respler
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