Re: Problems trying configure my location for iGate..
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Morning All,
OK, with pointers fron Nigel, and some reading between the lines I've managed to get my feet dry and with 1/2 mile of home.....
The problem I was having was that, as Nigel pointed out, the first 2 digits of the lat/longs are your degrees but the second group was actually "Decimal Minutes and Seconds" NOT? decimal degrees...
If you are having problems converting these about, I used to do the conversions and my PBEACON statement now looks like this:
PBEACON sendto=igate every=30 overlay=R symbol="igate" lat=55^56.44 long=3^23.39W via=WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 (I also got my Eastings/Westings mixed up... DUH)
Thanks for all the help.
Bob
Morning Nigel, Thanks for the reply.... but I'm still not gellint the requied location.... I changed the PBeacon statement to:
PBEACON sendto=igate every=30 overlay=R symbol="igate" lat=55^94 long=3^39E via=WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1
And this puts me just north of New York in the good old US of A.....
What am I doing wrong as I cant find any documentation explaining how to structure the locations string????
Thanks again
Bob Webster GM70BI
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 12:14, rover.bob123 via
<rover.bob123=[email protected]> wrote:
> I've built an iGate with Pi3+ and and Icom RX but I can't get my location on show on properly...
> My Pbeacon statement is:
> PBEACON sendto=igate every=30 overlay=R symbol="igate" lat=42^55.94539 long=071^3.39273E via=WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1
> This locates me in Eastern Europe near Tapaz.....
> What am I doing wrong?? (what do the 42^ and 071^ mean/do???)
They are the degrees of your location, so you are saying that you are
located at 42 degrees and about 56 minutes north.Which just happens to
be the latitude of Taraz in Kazakhstan...
Nigel Worsley
M0ZFJ
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Bob