> Many years ago I wrote a futuristic article for NCJ that predicted that
all
> logs would be fed to a central data base in real time. The participants
would
> receive, in real time, a global map showing the two-way QSO's
graphically,
> enabling them to plot strategy based on actual propagation paths. All we
need
> is a video game guru to put this together via Internet. The gauntlet is
> thrown in the essence of pushing the technology envelope and, perhaps, not
seeing
> another thread about how packet is unfair.
>
> Tom Taormina, K5RC
The map concept has been implemented as a JAVA applet for one of the 6-meter
Web pages. QSOs are reported to the page with the grid of each end and a
line is drawn on a Mercator projection map. I can't put my finger on the
URL at the moment, but it was quite interesting.
73, Ward N0AX
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