Makes more sense for the BBS Sysop to Flag it with a "B".. That's what I
have done here....
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Jon Eyes G7OMN
Southport UK.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Simper <mark.simper@...>
To: ui-view@... <ui-view@...>
Date: 10 April 1999 23:12
Subject: [ui-view] Re: Ideas.
From: Mark Simper <mark.simper@...>
Hi All,
Roger Barker wrote:
From: Roger Barker <roger@...>
In article <370F411B.9031F86B@...>, Mark Simper
<mark.simper@...> writes
From: Mark Simper <mark.simper@...>
Hi all,
Roger wrote:-
If the BBSs are sending locators, you can still get a BBS symbol if you
make yourself a BBS BMP, and put multiple copies of it in the
UI-VIEW\SYMBOLS directory, each named according to the name of a BBS
that you hear transmitting a locator. E.g. GB7AAA.BMP, GB7BBB.BMP, etc.
That's what I'd been doing already! Thought it might have been nice to
have it done automaticaly though.
If you follow the instructions in my previous message, it will become
automatic for BBSs sending long/lat and a symbol character of 'B'. When
it comes to a locator beacon, there's nothing in it that identifies the
station type.
However, I expect I could change the symbol if the sending callsign was
GB7???. I don't think that would cause a problem.
--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK
Hmmm.. not too sure how well detecting a BBS from the sending stations call
would work, it may be a single isolated case but I know of one BBS that is
sending beacons from the sysops own call:-
18:33:46R G4MRU>ID Port=1 <UI C>:
!5328.70N/00135.60W-GB7MRU Sheffield
The other two BBS's that I can here from here at the moment are however
sending beacons from the BBS call
ie GB7???
Or were you meaning only to look at the call in the case of a station that
is
sending a locator square rather than an longitude/latitude style beacon?
73's de Mark. M1DKS
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