[TowerTalk] LAT/LONG QUESTION

[Roger K8RI on Tower]

As far as the conversion, it's pretty straight forward.

There are 360 degrees in a circle.
There are 60 minutes per degree
There are 60 seconds per minute.

If you wrote the program then the conversion should be simple.    Inputing 
into some one elses might not.



>What kind of GPS receiver do you have?
>You might be able to set it to display in decimal degrees, rather than
>degrees/minutes/seconds.

This would be the normal display for GPS (geographic, or global 
coordinates).  I've never looked to see if mine would display otherwise, but 
it's used for navigation.


Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene WØQFC" <erastber at tampabay.rr.com>
To: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:38 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] LAT/LONG QUESTION


My logging program requires that I enter the lat & long figures as:

28.xxxxxx and -82.xxxxxx.

I have the figures from my GPS receiver but they are expressed as:

   28.27.319 N
_82.36.623.W

How do I convert the above to the 28.xxxxxx format?
Thanks in advance.

Gene, WØQFC
Spring Hill, FL

PS Where can I find info on Lat/Long so I can learn more?
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