On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:14:18PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > --- "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like proximity circles being drawn by an > > Xastir station > > running version 1.7.1. "440cvr" and "441.7125" are > > both Xastir > > objects from AI4PX. I think he added the proximity > > circles to one > > or both of those objects. > > Ok, so what do the proximity circles do for Xastir or > otherwise? Do they trigger something?
They don't "do" anything but draw circles on the map. The feature was primarily put in place for use in search and rescue, where the circles are meant to denote regions of probability. It's a common tool used to limit the search area to those distances within which subjects of the type being looked for are usually found. Such distances are tabulated for different types of subjects. The objects created like this would show up on all the Xastir instances in use on the search, getting important mission information to everyone involved. And obviously, to those who are not. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
