[NLRS] File upload of zippy GPS-tracking distance/nearing calcultor

[Chris Cox]

I found a small windoze program on the net today from Germany named 
radiodist.exe.  It is a self-contained win32 binary (doesn't need to be 
extracted/setup/mangled/etc) that is a very nice little bearing and 
distance calculator for Maidenhead grids.  I know there's a lot of them 
out there, however, this one is optimised for mobile/portable UHF/SHF 
stuff in that it supports the extended 8-digit grid locators.

This improves the resolution of calculations by a factor of ten which, as 
we al know, is very useful on the higher microwave bands.

What's more, it will happily directly accept a serial NMEA feed from your 
handy-dandy portable or mobile GPS receiver for calculation of your own 
location.  This makes finding the DX a snap simply entering in the remote 
locator in either 6 or 8 digit Maidenhead notation.  If you wish you can 
also enter the location in standard spherical notation 
(degrees/minutes/seconds).

When using it in a car it even has has a really cool "relative" bearing 
mode where it pokes a spoke out of the respective window of your vehicle.  
Brilliant!


And, of course, it's totally free.

If you'd like to play with it, I have put a copy of it up on my ftp 
server. The url is:-
ftp://ftp.chris.org/pub/radiodist.exe

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73  Chris Cox  N0UK, G4JEC, ex-AB0CN, ex-G8PTC  RNARS #1157  EN34jv

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