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- AZ_PROJ History
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- v1.04 Nov 96
-
- 1. Orthographic orientation option (South at the top of
- the page). Needed for people in the Southern Hemisphere (-:
-
- 2. ARRL grid square labelling style added. The ARRL
- style has much smaller labels for the grid squares and puts the
- letter square labels in the bottom left of the square. The grid
- square labelling style used in v1.00-v1.03 is now called az_proj
- style.
-
- 3. Several different options added for shading worked
- grid squares (different colors, different cross hatching
- methods) so that it's possible to mark grid squares worked by
- two (or more) different people. See the sample grid.dat file for
- more info. You can also use the same options for marking the
- grids at the ends of a qso (see qso.dat for examples). Only one
- type of grid data line now used.
-
- 4. Plotting broadcast stations. A list of USA
- (and some Mexican and Canadian stations) stations (MW, FM, TV)
- in machine readable format has been produced by Colin K4SSO
- (aa0yt@mo.net, http://walden.mo.net/~aa0yt). Further lists
- are expected (e.g. Australia). A separate file consisting
- of only the North American Channel 2 stations (55.25MHz
- useful as 6m propagation markers) has been added. A list of
- European TV stations (from Geoff Brown and Emil W3EP) has been
- converted to machine readable format, for 6m propagation
- markers.
-
- 5. DAT file formats are still changing (sorry).
- Anything which is a transmitter (TV station, rover, beacon,
- repeater) all have the same format. The only thing which changes
- is the symbol displayed. Please note the changes detailed in
- each .DAT file (at most you will have to add an extra colon or
- two to your old files if you want to update them).
-
- 6. GRID.DAT file format of v1.03 (there called grid2) is
- now standard (now called grid: format). The old format
- from v1.00 has been dropped.
-
- 7. An install.bat file has been added to install AZ_PROJ
- and Ghoscript onto a DOS machine with a VGA or SVGA monitor.
- Sample batch files for testing both Ghostscript and AZ_PROJ are
- included.
-
- 8. Easier method for choosing when to draw grid square
- borders and compass (in az_ini.ps). (Also clearer explanation
- of what's happening, I hope).
-
- 9. Display of USA by call areas (0..9) rather than
- (or as well as) by states.
-
- 10. Labelling feature. The center of the line on which
- the label sits, is at the lat/lon (cf annotations where a blob
- is at the lat/lon). This feature can be used for labelling
- continents, countries... The size of the characters can be
- chosen differently for each entry, and the size chosen scales
- with the map scale. You can try this feature out, by labelling
- the US call areas with the file us_call.dat when the numbers
- 0..9 will be drawn in each call area. The borders of the call
- areas can be drawn by turning on /draw_USA_call_areas in
- az_ini.ps.
-
- 11. Can convert output from the contest logging program
- CT to AZ_PROJ format.
-
-
- v1.03 27 Aug 96
-
- Fixed main bug in v1.0.
-
- Added features:
-
- 1. qso.dat file. Draws great circle route between
- two QTH's anywhere on earth. For plotting contacts
- during propagation openings (eg Es), to show
- center of Es cloud.
-
- 2. comment fields added to grid2.dat, qso.dat
-
- 3. .wdb files edited so that consecutive paths have
- different path descriptor numbers. Paths now have about
- 1000 points or less. THese modifications simplify the code
- which reads the .wdb files.
-
- 4. dxcc country names/callsigns can now be drawn around the
- circumference of the map
-
-
- 5. Greylines can be drawn for sunset and sunrise at
- your QTH for any date(s).
-
- 6. In the personal .dat files (mountain, rover, grid...)
- a comment field, ignored by az_proj, has been added.
-
- 7. Config files added. You can use a small preconfigured
- file to make a map, in which only a small number of options
- is ever changed. Thus you can have a config file for HF,
- or VHF (or each VHF band, with a different scale).
- For examples, see hf_conf.ps and vhf_conf.ps
-
-
-
- v1.01,1.02 Jun 96 - not publically released
-
- grid2.dat file: enables selecting worked grid squares
- by propagation mode (designed to supercede grid.dat file).
-
- Greyline routine improved so that the nightime part of the
- earth can be shaded.
- Map Server at http://www.xray.duke.edu:1080/ - Apr 96
-
- Machine kindly provided by my work. A node that doesn't get
- much use, mine :-), is being used.
-
-
-
- V1.0 released Jul 95
-
- Quickly found to have a bug when running in postscript
- mode (sending to printer, or using ghostscript
- feeding one big concatenated file). If a grid.dat
- file was sent to the printer before the .wdb files
- the printer would lock up. Funny that was working
- only a few weeks before ;-). Ran fine if using
- ghostscript with command line parameters
-
-
-
- V0.9a, 0.9b (beta)
-
- released at VHF conferences in Memphis TN, Jul 94, and
- Vernon CT, Aug 94, for non distribution.
-
-
- Joe Mack NA3T, mack@ncifcrf.gov, mack@xray.duke.edu
-
- and
-
- Michael Katzmann NV3Z, michael@baa01285.slip.digex.net
-
- Nov 96
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