More #GIS hecking : #Viking is decent software, I've got it to work with importing *two* #GPX tracks from Ordnance Survey app on my mobile phone- *but* inexplicably it won't allow multiple rulers to be put on the layers, tried to use tracks as a workaround and they do not automatically show the length!
At this rate I might just end up printing the OS map from the website using works colour MFD (I think I can get it to print correct scale) and marking the points by hand like in 1980s 😆
@gemlog plotting the range of various UHF radio transmitters that signal to pagers 📟
Some of these I am testing at home and others are going to be used at my work (so the patients can sit in balcony/lounge areas but still signal for carers), which is why I can't unfortunately share all the maps.
But I am getting over 0,5km from just +18dBm (admittedly with a cherry picked location on the top floor of my house and full 1/4 wave antenna) which is promising..
@vfrmedia Nice! Seems like you are always at work.
@gemlog although my interest/curiosity in pagers (and how/why I still use for work them in the 21st century) dates back from my pirate radio days 😆 🏴 (you can also still scan them on VHF in the UK, even post Airwave deployment there's a lot of "interesting" stuff on there, even more so than when "normal" folks had them)
@vfrmedia I can't profess a love of the devices. Beginning when I was 17 I had a 'beeper', then voice and alpha pagers then cell phones... Even 2 years ago I was packing around 3 cell phones at the same time.
Now I'm finally rid of the things nearly into my dotage!
I do have a small android phone, which I use as a small tablet -- it has no phone service and I have no phone at home. There's free wifi everywhere anyhow.
I'm surprised at how many UK IT support staff are clearly still using the VHF (national coverage) pagers even today (there are also auto alerts from some quite high profile online systems); but it sort of makes sense not to fully trust either the mobile networks nor the Internet for critical comms..
Apparently 80% of all the *worlds* VHF pagers are now used in the UK (usage split between NHS, Emergency Service and on call IT staff)
@vfrmedia Don't get me wrong, I can't help but be attracted to tech ;-)
Look at this 'watch' you can pair it with bluetooth to your cellphone and/or give it it's own SIM card and microSD -- it is a phone. And a camera. Touch screen...
$17.95 CAD on amazon. That's insane! That's like 10 quid!
Here's a little review to scrub through. It's not even that large.
@gemlog just had a look and they are available in the UK.
That said although I was considering starting to wear a wristwatch again, I prefer more traditional kinds, but was slightly taken aback when I looked up details of one I thought was decent on DE as well as UK websites and saw it clearly described as "Seniorenuhr" 😆 👴🏽
@vfrmedia Well, we are of an age! :-)
@vfrmedia What are using it for? Geocaching or ..?