[GreenKeys] itty broken?

[Ralph Mowery]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <larryradio at att.net>
To: "Doug Alderdice" <ka2wft at arrl.net>; <eugene at hertzmail.com>; 
<comcents at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] itty broken?


Hi Doug,

What does all this mean on your QRZ listing?
Find me on AO-27 and AO-51 during the summer months from EN95sm.

lar
K2JIA


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AO-27 and AO-51 are ham radio satellites.  For more info go to amsat.org.

EN95sm is a grid square locator.  It is mainly used on VHF and above to 
indicate where someone is.  Instead of collecting states or countries, many 
VHF and above operators collect grid squares.  Usually just the EN95 would 
be exchanged.  The world is devided into a bunch of rectangles (instead of 
squares) .  You can look for grid square maps on the internet.

>From the ARRL web page:

An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside 
London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in 
1980), a grid square measures 1° latitude by 2° longitude and measures 
approximately 70 × 100 miles in the continental US. A grid square is 
indicated by two letters (the field) and two numbers (the square), as in 
FN31, the grid square within which W1AW, ARRL's Maxim Memorial Station, 
resides.

Each subsquare is designated by the addition of two letters after the grid 
square, as FN44IG. These more precise locators are used as part of the 
exchange in the 10-GHz contest. They measure 2.5 minutes latitude by 5 
minutes longitude, roughly corresponding to 3 × 4 miles in the continental 
US.