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Re: [TowerTalk] HFTA

To: <towertalk@contesting.com>, "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HFTA
From: "Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO" <w5wvo@cybermesa.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:52:51 -0700
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Pete Smith wrote:

> ...the big thing
> is that I've discovered a bug in the pages where you can specify an
> area to download by digital degrees or Degress/Minutes/Seconds.  In
> short, you MUST supply the same number of decimal places as they have
> in their form - for example, seconds must be in the format SS.SS.
> Digital degrees must have five decimal places, even if the last one
> is a zero.  If you don't, you'll get a php error in the page every
> time.

I "discovered" this bug a loooong time ago, and sent several emails to the
webmaster of the USGS site -- none of which were ever responded to, of
course. What I didn't come up with was the SOLUTION! Thanks a lot, Pete.
This really helps.  :D

Bill / W5WVO
Rio Rancho, NM / DM65

>
> The second rub is that if you want to use the graphical way to select
> your area by zooming in from the map viewer, you need a display that
> is at least 1028 x 1024 resolution.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
>  At 03:20 PM 12/9/2005, Tom McAlee wrote:
>> In addition to the link N4ZR pointed out, check the help file that
>> installs
>> with HFTA from the antenna book's cd-rom.  I found it to be a lot
>> more
>> instructional than what is explained in the antenna book itself.
>>
>> The screen shots are slightly out of date with the actual usgs.gov
>> pages,
>> but they are similar enough to figure out what's what.
>>
>> 73,
>> Tom, NI1N
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Ogden" <ogden@us.ibm.com>
>> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:52 PM
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] HFTA
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone have a more detailed writeup available for setting up
>>> HFTA?  I have the Antenna Handbook and CD, but it is rather general
>>> about how to download the necessary mappng data.
>>>
>>> Bill --- W2WO
>>>
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>>
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> _______________________________________________
>
> See: http://www.mscomputer.com  for "Self Supporting Towers",
> "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more.  Call Toll Free,
> 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
>
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Stations", and lot's more.  Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions 
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