[Dxspider-support] HK3C station coordinates wrong

Michael Carper mike at wa9pie.net
Wed Oct 21 16:58:45 BST 2015


That worked.  Thanks.

Problem is... when an operator makes a typo in the location information of
their station, then my software will accurately calculate the distance to
the wrong location.  This causes people to tell me that our software is
broken.  Frustrating.

73 de Mike, WA9PIE

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Ron Gibson <ve3cgr at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> The data usually comes from the actual user when they first log into a
> node. As a sysop you can change it by 'spoof hk3c set/qra fj24wq'. It will
> over time propagate to the other nodes.
> Ron
> VE3CGR
>
>
> On 10/20/2015 4:37 PM, Michael G. Carper wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me where this data comes from and how it gets corrected?
>
>
>
> <-  sh/station hk3c
>
> User         : HK3C
>
> QTH          : Bogata, Colombia
>
> Location     : 4 31 N 74 2 E (MJ74AM)
>
> Heading      : 346 Deg. 8764 Mi. 14106 Km.
>
> WA9PIE-2>
>
>
>
> (It should be 74 2 W and FJ24 instead of 74 2 E and MJ74.)
>
>
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
>
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