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Grid & bearing

Grid & bearing works out the distance and bearing between two Maidenhead locators, or one locator's position. It is for operators planning a contact or a path; connected stations may ask it too.

What it does

With one locator the tool answers with its position; with two it answers with the great-circle distance and the bearing from the first to the second, and shows them in its panel.

Use it

Command Answer
/grid JN76 JN76 = 46.5000, 15.0000
/grid JN76jx JO30 JN76JX → JO30: <km> km, bearing <degrees>°, also in the panel

A station connected to your packet terminal may send grid <locator> [locator] and gets the same answer.

Permissions

Permission Why
command Registers /grid
panel Shows the last result

Version and tool API
Manifest name grid-bearing
Version 1.1.0
Tool API 1.0, the minimum it needs
Author OE8APR
Shows on web, terminal, bbs, node
Commands Connected peers may run the commands it opens to them
Licence MIT
In the project registry Listed, as version 1.1.0
Source tools/grid-bearing/

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