WWL(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet wwl — it's a Maidenhead locator utility 💖 no cap, that's the whole vibe. it does grid-square math and it's lowkey iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so here's the tea ☕: this program does Maidenhead calculations of distance and bearing for any two Maidenhead locators given on the command line 🫶

alternatively — and this is the plot twist — the program may be used to return the Latitude and Longitude of a single Maidenhead grid square when invoked as locator ✨ iykyk.

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

bestie run these, they ate 💅:

wwl fn25di jo55ei
qrb: 5810 kilometers, azimuth: 46 degrees
wwl jo55 ec41
qrb: 15996 kilometers, azimuth: 216 degrees

like?? 15996 kilometers?? that's main character energy fr fr 🌈🔥

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

wwl, Originally by IK0ZSN Mirko Caserta <ik0zsn@amsat.org> 💌

and the lore continues: There is no code from the original (dead?) version of wwl. not me side-eyeing the (dead?) 🙈💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Diane Bruce (VA3DB) db@db.net — absolute legend, periodt 🫶👑

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this came from FreeBSD, dated October 7, 2007, and you can find it as wwl(1) ✨ go slay some grid squares 🎀🦋

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