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|    mark lewis to Ed Vance    |
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|    03 Oct 16 09:38:10    |
      02 Oct 16 18:37, you wrote to Ben Ritchey:               EV> In the room I saw a wood Plotting Table that had a map of the area        EV> about 100 Miles all around my city.               EV> Each Square was marked with two letters, EJ was the Grid that showed        EV> where my city was located.              [snip]               EV> When I was in the Navy, one of the Officers had a Map of the U.S.A.        EV> that was marked off in Grids and it showed my home located in the EJ        EV> square, like it showed on the Plotting Table at the GOC Filter Center        EV> back home.              this sounds like you are talking about the Maidenhead Locators or the old QRA       Locator...               https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System               https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRA_locator              but the EJ grid you mention seems to be located over the western half of       Panama and the southern half of Costa Rica...              using the MhL, i'm in grid FM... more specifically FM05...               http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html                     )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... god@universe:~ # cvs up && make world       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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