[FADCA] ZIP

[Freeman Crosby]

Hi Chuck,

It also drove me nuts at first, the GPS stream puts me right on the money 
using my Alinco but if I enter the same data in Winaprs using the KAM it is 
way off.

There is no option I can see to change it.
I tried entering it differently but it wont accept it.

Example:

My Lat Lon is 26' 55.73 N / 82'21.44 W

Funny thing is if I enter 26 55' 44 N & 82 21' 44 W  in the Winaprs boxes 
it shows 2655.73N 08221.73W a bit to the left.

Cant send attachments or in-line images on the list so view the screen shot at:
http://www.fcrosby.com/public/aprs_input.gif

It took some experimenting to get the right figures but I now know what to 
use here at my QTH.

Thanks
73/Free
W1NPR




At 09:51 AM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Free,
>Check and see what format that WinAPRS wants that data in
>you may have entered it in one format and it tried to interpret
>it as another, I have done that so many times it is no longer
>a joke. The final result is I am out in the bay, gulf, or inland
>somewhere, no where near where I am supposed to be. The usual one
>is inputing DDMM.mmm format into a register which is looking for
>DD.dddd format, or trying to enter DD:MM:SS.ss format into one
>of the others, most of these programs do not do any format checking
>they just try to interpret it as best they can and put you where
>they think you said you were.
>
>Also many of them will not accept the DDMM.mmm format as DD'MM.mmm
>you have to put the degrees and minutes in run together.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Freeman Crosby [mailto:crosby@ewol.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 06:11 PM
> > To: fadca@mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: RE: [FADCA] ZIP
> >
> >
> > Hi Guys
> >
> >  From my Garmin Street Pilot I get the following.
> >
> > Call                Zip        Lat                         Lon
> >        Datum
> > W1NPR       34223      26'55.730 N            082'21.733  W     WGS84
> >
> > However when I put these in my Winaprs program it locates me
> > out in the bay
> > so I had to fudge those entries till I arrived on my street.
> >
> > Guess that may have something to do with the Datum used by
> > Garmin and that
> > used by Winaprs ?
> >
> > I contacted Garmin to determine the Datum, they said it was
> > not selectable
> > in the unit I have but is in some.
> >
> > 73/Free
> > W1NPR
> >
> >
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