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From: "captbrian" <captbrian@ukonline.co.uk>
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:57:25 -0000
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Subject: Re: LF: Re: Locator program
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I do not tell others what to do but it has never been clear to me why radio
amateurs need a separate system for defining geographical position from that
used by the rest of the population  unless it is designed to create
something for people to collect.  Lat Long tells everything to everyone with
a definition of as fine as one chooses to use decimal points of minutes of
arc. With a GPS I can discern the difference between the front and the back
garden of a suburban house. What more?

Bryan


----- Original Message -----
From: John Rabson <word.factory@zetnet.co.uk>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: Locator program


Thanks for the suggestion.  Most of the people I shall be dealing with will
be radio amateurs, but I raised the question because I have noticed,
particularly on 5MHz, that people exchange locator references.

73 John G3PAI

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On 27/02/2005 at 18:15 captbrian wrote:

>If you want to communicate with navigators in general and not just
>radio-hams then ,  then Lat.  Long. seems obvious in view of universal GPS
>users
>
>Bryan
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: John Rabson <word.factory@zetnet.co.uk>
>To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
>Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:24 PM
>Subject: LF: Locator program
>
>
>Over the years I have encountered a number of locator systems:
>
>Latitude and longitude
>
>GB national grid references
>
>QRA locator
>
>QTH locator
>
>Georef
>
>Maidenhead
>
>I am planning some HF propagation experiments from underground and need to
>know which locator I should be using for indicating my location in the UK.
>If the answer is not NGR I would want to feed the latter into a computer
>program.
>
>Suggestions, please?
>
>Regards,
>John Rabson G3PAI