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Re: AO-40 question.
- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 question.
- From: "Frederick M. Spinner" <fspinner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:05:02 +0000
Bob, you are an engineer, you should know this.. tilde is often used for
"about equal" when on a computer.
Looks like you need "Large Fonts" enabled, eh?
Fred W0FMS
>From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
>To: Reinhard Richter <dj1km@AMSAT.Org>
>CC: "Michael P. Olbrisch" <kd9kc@elp.rr.com>, "_AMSAT_list (E-mail)"
><amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 question.
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:39:28 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Reinhard Richter wrote:
>
> > You will always find actual ALON/ALAT data on the webpage
>www.amsat-dl.org.
> > Look for AO-40 Update. ...
> > So it might be ~317/4 for today.
>
>Why the tilde character in front? "~". It was not until I saw this this
>morning and then was thinking to myself that I wonder if -317 is the same
>as +43 degrees... then I looked closer and realized it was a tilde and not
>a minus sign. I guess I have had it wrong all along...
>
>Having eyes over 40 is a curse...
>
>And I think now that INSTANTRACK version 1.52 takes those numbers directly
>now as written and gives the correct answer. No reply needed if
>afirmative. (as long as you dont missread the ~ as a - as I have been
>doing)...
>
>Bob, wb4apr
>
>
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