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From: "captbrian" <captbrian@ukonline.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:43:49 -0000
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BTW is there a site with a program that inputs lat.long and outputs the
locator and "wab" ?
Bryan

----- Original Message -----
From: captbrian <captbrian@ukonline.co.uk>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:30 PM
Subject: LF: Re: Locators


> That is an interesting historical account but you fail to tell us the
> reasons advanced for not using Lat. Long. ie trigonometrical definitions
on
> a true curved surface rather than  draughtsman drawn squares on a
> draughtsman drawn simulation on a flat sheet of paper
>
> G3GVB
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Walter Blanchard <blanch@pncl.co.uk>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:44 AM
> Subject: LF: Locators
>
>
> > In 1968 I had a long-running correspondence with the RSGB over the IARU
> > adoption of what was then the "QRA Locator"; later to become the
> > "Maidenhead" locator.  QRA was first proposed for amateur use by a Czech
> > amateur OK1VR in 1958 and was subsequently adopted by amateurs in all
the
> > Warsaw Pact countries. I believe it originated in a USSR military
locator
> > system already well understood by them. The Western (NATO) counterpart
was
> > the GEOREF system which I described in an RSGB Bulletin article in 1968.
> The
> > RSGB VHF committee at the time were, somewhat amazingly, unaware of
GEOREF
> > and thought that QRA was a totally amateur invention. When I started
> pushing
> > for GEOREF, a more logical, accurate and simpler system, I was more or
> less
> > told to keep quiet and stop rocking the boat since the IARU were going
for
> > QRA and that was that. The rest, as they say, is history.  I forecast at
> the
> > time that QRA would never have the accuracy required for accurate
contest
> > scoring and that's why Maidenhead has become so needlessly complicated.
We
> > could also have gone for the well-established world-wide UTM grid but I
> > suppose that would have been too easy. It's all too late to do anything

> now,
> > of course, but I have never met a professional geodesist who understands
> why
> > we need Maidenhead. .
> >
> > Walter G3JKV.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>