Must Be Software

Software programs released by Paul Williamson, KB5MU

Laziness — Impatience — Hubris

CDMA Cellular Phones

Do you have a CDMA digital cellular phone? Chances are good that some of its software was written by me and my (former) colleagues at Qualcomm. Too bad it's all proprietary so I can't tell you more, except that hundreds of millions have been shipped.

InstantTrack

InstantTrack is probably the best satellite tracking program (what's that?) ever written for the MS-DOS environment. Originally released in 1989 by Franklin Antonio, N6NKF, after over a year of vigorous development, the program stagnated at version 1.00 until Y2K bugs forced an update release. I created the first maintenance release, version 1.50, with the Y2K bugs fixed, some new features taken from Franklin's post-1.00 beta development, and some new features of my own. Few people were buying new DOS programs by 2000, but well over a thousand people purchased the upgrade, raising a tidy sum for AMSAT. Minor development continues sporadically, with post-1.50 upgrades released for open beta testing.

InstantTrack home page (hype, screenshots, FAQ, documentation, tutorials, etc.)
Open Beta test versions (feature list, downloads, instructions)

Accessories for InstantTrack

ITPASS	InstantTrack Satellite Pass Table Generator
ITSORT	InstantTrack Database Reordering Tool
ITSTAMP	InstantTrack Timestamped Log Annotator

Satellite Programs

DISPANG	RotorDRV TSR add-on to display az/el angles too
DUMMYKCT	RotorDRV TSR to just display az/el angles
FlipAnts	RotorDRV TSR add-on to "flip" antennas over
KCT-EC2	RotorDRV TSR to EasyComm 2 serial protocol adapter
ITTSRCHK	InstantTrack TSR Installation Checker
KCTGS232	RotorDRV TSR to Yaesu GS-232 serial protocol adapter
NASAWASH	2-line Keplerian Elements file cleaner-upper
RangeRate demo	Example of how to get OrbitDRV's Doppler info
Sat Education News Tracker mods	Some bug fixes for a simple satellite tracking program available in source code form for educational purposes
WOD2CSV	AO-40 WOD (Whole Orbit Data) to comma-separated values file format converter
Mac Vocalizer for PREDICT	Speech synthesis utility for KD2BD's PREDICT tracking program under Mac OS X

Packet Radio Programs

KISS2ASC	KISS binary AX.25 packet log to ASCII pseudo-MONitor format converter
KISSFILT	KISS binary AX.25 packet log filter

Online Web Toys

Gridsquare Conversion

Grid locator to/from latitude/longitude converter

Digital Photography Tools

New C1 PRO Session

AppleScript to wrap a Capture One session around an image folder

Ancient History

Patch for DU

My first (?) Usenet posting, offering a source code patch (1987)