Maidenhead grid squares :) ? -- currently I'm at CN87tt34 (Courtesy
of http://iphone.donaldhays.com/maidenhead/ iPhone application)
Not really intuitive, but pretty accurate.
Another one that would be more intuitive in the US/Can would be:
USUTSLC
USTXDFW1
CAABCLGY
CABCVANC
2 letter iso
I am trying to organize channels in my 2820 again and looking for a simple way
to abbreviate the Names or Locations of repeaters. Zip Codes or Postal Codes
may be OK in the US. IATA Airport codes may be OK except most mountain tops
don't have airports. It looks like there a just around 500
://www.dstarinfo.com/repeaters/repeaters.htm
Ed WA4YIH
From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of bosshardss
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:41 PM
To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Simplify Abreviations for Alpha Tags
I am trying
Callsigns are good. But from my experience tags are often better if
they are intuitive.
73,
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JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa
In Japan, we use four-letter tags like: EB43, FJ12, IKDD. The first two
letters are abbreviation of location like EB=Ebina, FJ=Fujisawa,
IK=Ikoma, and the rest of two indicate modules.
You can find these in the Japanese repeater list
http://www.d-star.jp/D-STARjapan.pdf.
73,
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JI1BQW - Kay
Ed Woodrick wrote:
As far as I know, there's only one basic convention where
you don't end up with a bunch of exceptions.
CALLSIGN
Given that callsigns are unique ...
but often they don't even give you a hint of anything
to do with geographical location. W1 D-STAR repeater
in Florida - or
