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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