Hello John, Chris here, a G4 for quite some time!
What you and everybody else with data communications problems between their computers and their radios are missing is a USB interface. This business of having to use exactly the right cable, exactly the right driver from the dim and distant past, and in some cases having to modify the shape of either the radio or the data lead to make them fit, is an absolute nonsense and has been for many years. I read the emails to chirp-users and I would guess that at least 70% of them concern problems with data transfer.
I will not be buying another radio with a data interface unless it is to the world-wide standard for USB, including both hardware and software. In this respect it is high time that the manufacturers of radio equipment dragged themselves into the 21st Century.
I am not a fan of Bill Gates because of the damage he has done to computing as a whole over the last 40 years, but apart from the name, at least he got the USB interface right. I mean, fancy calling a digital communications interface 'Upper Side Band'!
Regards, Chris
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1. Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator (Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF) 2. Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator (Bisdorf, Paul L Jr CIV USARMY CESWT (US)) 3. Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator (Kenneth L. Bechtel, II) 4. Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator (Bruce Harper) 5. Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator (Martin Kratoska) 6. Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator (Patrick Brown) 7. No Data (John Laiosa) 8. Re: No Data (Jim Unroe)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF" nigel@ngunn.net Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Lat + Long => WW Locator To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: 1566243380.216087.1499368318248@email.1and1.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
In which country. I've never seen UTM before.
On 06 July 2017 at 13:25 "Kenneth L. Bechtel, II" kbechtel@teamanti-virus.org wrote:
Just to put it out there, many services, such as Search and Rescue use UTM,
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:21:39 +0000 From: "Bisdorf, Paul L Jr CIV USARMY CESWT (US)" Paul.Bisdorf@usace.army.mil Subject: Re: [chirp_users] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Lat + Long => WW Locator To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: 92A3EB79857B98468A61E94E5F7022A6011433F71A@EIS-MB0602CPC.eis.ds.usace.army.mil
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UTM, or Universal Transverse Mercator, has been in wide use by the military for many years. Of late, it has been largely supplanted by the Military Grid Reference System, which retains the same grid system, but uses naming conventions that are much more user friendly. NATO uses both, but MGRS is far more prevalent, and will eventually completely replace UTM.
-----Original Message----- From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 2:12 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [chirp_users] Lat + Long => WW Locator
In which country. I've never seen UTM before.
On 06 July 2017 at 13:25 "Kenneth L. Bechtel, II" kbechtel@teamanti-virus.org wrote:
Just to put it out there, many services, such as Search and Rescue use UTM,
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:25:11 -0400 From: "Kenneth L. Bechtel, II" kbechtel@teamanti-virus.org Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Lat + Long => WW Locator To: "'Discussion of CHIRP'" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: 00c701d2f68d$96eb7280$c4c25780$@org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
UTM was invented by the military and has been adopted by ground search teams worldwide, based on the ability to go to a 1M square. Air and Sea SAR still use LAT LONG due to the larger scale operations and areas. I specifically am in the states.
-----Original Message----- From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 3:12 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Lat + Long => WW Locator
In which country. I've never seen UTM before.
On 06 July 2017 at 13:25 "Kenneth L. Bechtel, II"
kbechtel@teamanti-virus.org wrote:
Just to put it out there, many services, such as Search and Rescue use UTM,
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Message: 4 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:25:45 -0400 From: Bruce Harper brucebharper@gmail.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Lat + Long => WW Locator To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: CALEB6u7-vRZ=1C8LdU9=iHeaQK5ZFpYAAQ-t-rQcGh1645Yw5Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Nigel wrote:
In which country. I've never seen UTM before.
On 06 July 2017 at 13:25 "Kenneth L. Bechtel, II" <
kbechtel@teamanti-virus.org> wrote:
Just to put it out there, many services, such as Search and Rescue use
UTM,
?Universal Transverse Mercator, which divides the entire earth into a grid. However, at least in parts of the United States, many SAR groups are shifting to using the United States National Grid (USNG) system, which is what the Federal Emergency Management Agency uses.
Bruce in Blacksburg
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Bruce B. Harper
2nd Lt. Recruitment and Retention
Search Team Leader/Public Information Officer
Southwest Virginia Mountain Rescue Group