LOCATOR(1)

💖 wwl / locator — the Maidenhead bestie you didn't know you needed 💖

okay so this page lives in the LOCAL manual section, and yes it's filed under wwl(1) bestie, we got you 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

wwl — the Maidenhead locator utility, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so like, this program does Maidenhead calculations of distance and bearing for any two Maidenhead locators you hand it on the command line. alternatively — plot twist — the program can also be used to return the Latitude and Longitude of a single Maidenhead grid square when you invoke it as locator. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

watch this, it's giving main character energy ✨

wwl fn25di jo55ei
qrb: 5810 kilometers, azimuth: 46 degrees

wwl jo55 ec41
qrb: 15996 kilometers, azimuth: 216 degrees

locator FN25di
Locator    : FN25DI
Coordinates: Long: (W) -75.75 Lat : (N) 45.3333

locator jo55ei
Locator    : JO55EI
Coordinates: Long: (E) 10.33 Lat : (N) 55.3333

locator ec41
Locator    : EC41AA
Coordinates: Long: (W) -92.00 Lat : (S) -69.0000

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💜 HISTORY 💜

• wwl — originally by IK0ZSN Mirko Caserta <ik0zsn@amsat.org> 🌈
• locator — originally written by Harald M. Stauss <harald.stauss@web.de>, DO1JHS @ DB0GR.#BLN.DEU.EU 🎀

and bestie, listen: there is no code from the original (dead?) version of wwl or the original (dead?) version of locator in this version. literally zero. not a crumb. 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Diane Bruce (VA3DB) <db@db.net> — the moment, the legend, the icon 💅✨

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and that's the whole vibe bestie — this page is FreeBSD, dated October 7, 2007, filed as wwl(1) 🦋🌸💖 mwah, go calculate some grids, you ate 💅🎀