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Re: HP 48GX Sight Reduction Programs
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2001 Oct 04, 7:33 AM
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2001 Oct 04, 7:33 AM
Lee:
I own an HP48GX. I have given up on using it since Hewlett Packard announced
that they are getting out of the calculator business. The programming of the
HP48 also drove me nuts. I now use a Palm m100 for navigating, there are more
navigation programs available for the palm OS. I also use a pair of HP
32SII's, one for sight reduction and one for DR.
Probably the best sight reduction programs for the HP48 are the ones written
by Tom Metcalf:
Celestial Navigation 4.2 --
NAV-P8S4 for the sparcom card --
Do a search on "Navigation" at hpcalc.org. It will list just about all the
HP48 navigation programs available.
.
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> http://hpcalc.org/hp48/science/astronomy/ has been the only
> source I could find. I wonder if people know of other sources? Any comments
> on the programs at that source..relative merits, etc? Sparcom has a Navpac
> card for the HP 48GX...fairly expensive...does anyone have it/use it/any
> comments?? You can see the drift of the discussion I am hoping to kick
> off.......
>
> Perhaps there is scope for an appraisal of these programs...in term of their
> facilities, ease of use/data input, and their computational accuracy...if no
> one else has done it, I might..I wonder if there is any interest?
>
> Lee Martin
>
Dan Hogan
dhhogan@verionmail.com
