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 <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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
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