priyom / pavlova

Pavlova dispatcher based on live availability of KiwiSDR receivers
http://s.printf.cc
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add grid square based URLs #1

Open wilkersonp opened 3 years ago

linkfanel commented 3 years ago

Shortwave reception is a complicated topic, for now the philosophy of this tool is having curated lists of known good receivers for a category of transmissions. These categories aren't necessarily about geography: they include a geographic component by necessity, but there's also more to it.

The abiity to query any grid square departs from that and suggests some algorithmic dispatching, which would be a change of approach and scope for this tool. It's not likely to happen any time soon, and I'm not even sure this is a valid concept with regard to shortwave propagation. Which would the grid square correspond to, the location of the transmitter or the receiver? What's the use case? Querying a precise receiver location is counter-intuitive, and querying a transmitter location is awkward due to skip zone.