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1999-11-14
AF4CD: 14025.0 9M6OO up 14032.1 2158Z
1999-11-14
A4CD-1: 14025.0 9M6OO up 14032.1 2158Z
1999-11-14
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 18:31:41 -0600, "Rick Ruhl" <ricker@cssincorp.com>
wrote:
>John,
>
>This is a term that is used with a DX Cluster. A DX cluster is a specific
>kind of Packet BBS in your area, that when connected send information on a
>DX station, a spot, (time, freq, call etc) to each station connected. In
>the old days before clusters, 'Spotting a station' was done on the local
>repeater.
>
>
>--
>Rick Ruhl
>President, Creative Services Software
>http://www.cssincorp.com
>
>john kelley wrote in message ...
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I hope this is not a dumb question.
>>
>>I am new to digital modes, I have a KAM Plus and am trying tolearn as
>>much as possible. I have come across the term
>>
>>DX PACKET SPOTS
>>
>>and have no idea what this means.
>>
>>Could some please explain for me and/or recommend some good URLs for
>>beginners such as myself. I have ordered ARRL's Oprating Manual, but
>>I am not too sure if this is a good source of information.
>>
>>Any help?
>>
>>73 de John K2SHY
>
>.
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:05:42 -0600
From: "Rick Ruhl" <ricker@cssincorp.com>
Subject: DX Packet Spots
>> W1UK: 14005.6 R1AND 0137Z
1999-11-15
The first is station that send the spot, second the frequency the DX station
is on, third the DX stations call, 4th is a blank space which can be used
for comments about the DX station, 6th is the time of the spot in UTC (Zulu)
time and last is the date of the spot.
So W1UK heard/worked R1AND on 14005.6 at 0137 Zulu on 15 oct.
--
Rick Ruhl
President, Creative Services Software
http://www.cssincorp.com
>.
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:02:12 +0100
From: "Wim Wouters" <W.Wouters@T-Online.De>
Subject: Packetradio and VBasic
Hi,
did someone a Packet program in VB before?
need some advice handling the TNC2.
cu, Wim
--
Wim Wouters
49577 Eggermühlen
W.Wouters@T-Online.de
>.
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:19:40 GMT
From: owner1999@yahoo.com
Subject: Software for SCS Pactor-II
I'm looking for recommendations for what is available for software to control
the SCS Pactor-II unit. I'd like something that would run under NT. Anybody
have any suggestions, what to look at, what to avoid, etc. Any feedback
would be appreciated.
Thanks.......
Don
N0FGK
>.
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:27:37 -0000
From: "Gary Peach" <xcg34@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Source document for Maidenhead ?
Ian Wade wrote
> e.g. "IO91zz".
>Has anyone ever seen this specified anywhere?
Yeah! the Op had fallen asleep ;)
Gary7SLL, sorry
>.
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:41:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: tgold@microvest.demon.co.uk ("Anthony R. Gold")
Subject: Source document for Maidenhead ?
On Sunday, in article <80mh9v$j09$3@lure.pipex.net>
xcg34@dial.pipex.com "Gary Peach" wrote:
> Ian Wade wrote
> > e.g. "IO91zz".
> >Has anyone ever seen this specified anywhere?
>
> Yeah! the Op had fallen asleep ;)
:-)
As it's an incremental system, continually adding characters in pairs
adds incrementally to the precision. So IO is a complete locator of
the "field" of side 20 degrees (of longitude) wide by 10 degrees (of
latitude) high. As IO is the complete locator for this "field", it
doesn't need (or even benefit from) padding out with fake characters.
The next division is the "square" of say IO91, one tenth the side of
the field and 2 degrees wide by 1 degree high. Again IO91 is a
complete locator "square", and IO91zz adds nothing useful above IO91.
My guess is that some logging software somewhere, which expected six
characters for the 5' wide by 2.5' high locator that is normally
exchanged in VHF contests for distance measurement, would also accept
just four characters when those four were padded out with a zz filler.
I'm sure it's not any part of the locator system.
Regards from damp and foggy IO91PS.
--
Tony - G3SKR / W2TG email: tgold@panix.com
>.
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:00:10 +0000
From: Rick Sterry <nospam@all.UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Source document for Maidenhead ?
In article <GaNh1UAjTeL4EwBn@dowrmain.demon.co.uk>, Ian Wade
<URL:mailto:ian@dowrmain.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Can someone point me to the source document that specifies exactly how
> Maidenhead locations are annotated. I need chapter and verse for a
> specification I'm working on. In particular, I need to know if the
> letters *must* be upper case, or if they can be mixed.
>
> e.g. I know "IO91SX" is OK, but what about "io91sx" or "IO91sx"?
>
> Also, someone told me that "zz" is acceptable for the last two letters
> if the real letters aren't known; e.g. "IO91zz". Has anyone ever seen
> this specified anywhere?
I remember the original article in RadCom, Ian, though alas I cannot
recall which issue it was in. I am sure that someone will have pointed
you in the direction of John Morris G4ANB/GM4ANB, who wrote the
aforementioned article.
AFAIK there is no rigid format for the letter case, though as the old
locators were in the form "ZO46f" then I think that John also used the
format "IO94mj". However, the Super Duper contest program uses upper
case for the final two letters, and I frequently see this format used
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