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Subject: Grid Square Unknown
From: ni6t@scruznet.com (Garry Shapiro)
Date: Fri Aug 23 23:13:50 1996
k4sb@avana.net wrote:
> 
> Guys, with all due respect, this "grid square" business can be resolved very
> quickly. |Buy a copy of the Buckmaster CDROM. It has everyone's grid square 
> in it
> so when you bust the report of 5nnxxxx, all you have to do is look it up by 
> call,
> which gets us back to the same old garbage.
> 
> It's probably also on the local cluster...
> 
> 73, Ed
> -------------------------------------
> Name: ed sleight
> E-mail: k4sb@avana.net
> Time: 4:54:29 PM
> 
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Well, Ed, Buckmaster IS on the web, I tried it out--and found enough 
inaccuracies in just the first two callsigns tried to indicate that 
anyone who lives pretty close to a gridsquare boundary--an integer value 
of lattitude or an even integer value of longitude--should check his 
location and gridsquare a bit more carefully. Rick, N6ND sent info 
indicating that the Microsoft positioning S/W was more accurate. I used 
a 15 min projection from USGS.

Garry, NI6T, CM97 but <1km from CM87
-- 
Garry Shapiro, NI6T
Editor, The DXer
newsletter of the Northern California DX Club

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