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I need help formatting my long and lad for cwop Weather

 
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kc9dfk  



Joined: 06 Nov 2004
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Location: Chicago

PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:05 pm    Post subject: I need help formatting my long and lad for cwop Weather Reply with quote

Hi
Can some one help me out figuring out the correct value.
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=4620800&e=440772&size=s&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
I live at 3604 West 86th Street Chicago Il
Or UTM 16 440772E 4620800N (WGS84/NAD83)
USGS Blue Island Quad
I have a weather station and I'm tring to send data. They said my locatiion is
formatted wrong.
Thank you
Don KC9DFK CW2741
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ka9vnv  
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Joined: 08 Jun 2004
Posts: 152
Location: Woodstock, IL

PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, according to this CWOP setup page, the answer is that you have to use the format "DDMM.MMN" for latitude, and "DDDMM.MMW" for longitude, not UTM or "decimal degrees" format.... which is how a lot of programs display locations . For example, according to Streets and Trips, your address is about 41.73700 decimal degrees north latitude, and 87.71222 decimal degrees west logitude.

What you WANT is "Degrees Minutes Decimal Minutes" format, i.e., that DDMM.MM mentioned above. That means the .73700 is multiplied by 60, as is the .71222, so that you get is 4144.22N and 08744.73W as your entries.

By the way - on the above link, after 2 minutes, it loads a series of web cam shots... But, it was the first link I found on Google...
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:14 pm    Post subject: Thank you Reply with quote

Thank you for the responce. I have it running now. I'm cw2741.
Don
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