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Dick Grady AC7EL[_2_] Dick Grady AC7EL[_2_] is offline
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Default 30 Years Ago: Threat of loss of 220-222 MHz amateur band

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:49:12 EDT, Phil Kane
wrote:

Part of the problem is they rely on GPS for location. GPS and the
mapping services ...


Most likely it's the mapping services that get it wrong.

I maintain a website www.lvhamtest.org which lists Amateur Radio VE
teams in southern Nevada, namely Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Amargosa
Valley. Each team has an individual page detailing contact info and
location of the exams. For the big city Las Vegas and for tiny
Amargosa Valley (population 1,456) I embedded interactive maps from
Mapquest.com. But I could not do this for team pages for Pahrump
(population 35K). The exams are located at the county emergency
management building at 1510 Siri Lane. Most of the internet mapping
sites do not know of the existence of Siri Lane; they call this street
Vagueros. One did know of Siri Lane, but was 1/2 mile off. So I
resorted to using Windows Paint to draw a simple map for use on this
team page. See www.lvhamtest.org/p1.html

Dick Grady, AC7EL