I have been experimenting with satellites using the latest release of SDR-RADIO v3.1 Build 2496.
I ran with the "catalogue.tle" from Celestrak quite successfully although the 4MB file took a few minutes to load everything worked normally.
That was until I added an extra file containing "Westwood Needles". Very briefly these are clumps of copper resonant at 8.4GHz with needle like shape put into MEO in 1961.
After a mass protest the US Mil stopped the project - Mr. Musk took up the reigns and decided to put an active system in place
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Anyway....the result is that processing of these files seems to have caused a problem where SDR-Radio consumes moire and more memory until it sucks the life out of the Windows 10 system.
The only way to move forward is to reboot.
Sadly now everytime I launch the Satellite option welll....I end up with a dead machine.
It appears to load updated files, take a stab at display a satellite then stops as it sits down to work out what to do next. It churns away using resources increasingly (I extended the pagiing file to see if I could persuade it to continue, but even then it just gobbled it up. After about 30 minutes SR-Radio starts releases resources (as it got stuck somewhere and the OS decided it was unnecessarily using memeory), eventually reach 21MB but no CPU activity. The Not Responding message have been displayed alongside SDR-Radio shortly aftrer I launched the satelllite option.
I can't use the satellite option as everytime I launch it in SDR-Rario all resources are gobbled away..
Is there a way I can somehow edit some of the xml files to remove satellite groups?
I don't want to reset everything as I have rather a lot invested in frequencies and satellites and would be seriously unhappy to lose everything.
I know Simon loves a screenshot so have included what I can once all resources have been exhausted
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Nick - g4ogi