@gemlog its not by choice, I need to run it on work issued computers that have Win10 as other apps like patient database (I don't drive or own a car, so don't want to be hauling kilos of different devices around with me!)

I've found apps for amateur radio and SWL or satellite monitoring but these are designed ranges of 100+ km, and others for plotting wifi range but nothing in between (the use case is for checking range of UHF pagers and telemetry systems)

@vfrmedia We are in the same boat my friend.
I debated long and hard with myself about what to do with one place, but there are just too many microsoft-only things the government uses. It makes me angry but I have to deal with it, so I installed 10 new boxen with win10 :-(
FUCK! (sorry) It really pisses me off.

@vfrmedia I was going to install linux and win10 vms, but realistically... only 1 of their employees could deal with the virtualization. Just couldn't do it. It's just not how they think. They are all smarter than me, but they just don't think in that way. Multiple vms are a non-starter.
So today I had a virus-scare email and had to go in :-(
They were on a phishing site....
Fuck. Why do I do this work anyhow?
Too old to do anything else...

@vfrmedia at 13h21 I had an email that the sky was falling and look at the screenshot.
Well, of course, there was no screenshot... They forgot to attach it.
I hopped in the car and went there by 13h31 (pretty good eh?) and saw... a phishing site.
Really. How hard is it to look up and read the address?
Sigh.
At least I have them terrified enough not to click on random things...
I hate microsoft. Hate, hate, hate. I hasst.

@vfrmedia I hope I used the word correctly. It's stuck in my head from yesterday's little german metal music binge :-)
Rammstein - Du Hast (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3q8Od5qJio

@vfrmedia That wasn't the video I was thinking of, but it was the pun I meant (hasst, hast) :-)
German is hard! Someone should have warned me! :-)
Meh, it's all good. Just playing, learning and having fun.

@gemlog the spelling/grammar you used in the toot may be more Boarisch (Bavarian) dialect (where "ich" is replaced by "I" amongst many other things), more common in the South (and AT+CH) than the North

The Kätzin below (apparently also a Southern dialect word, but used by vets and animal shelters in that region for female cats) who I befriended did originally appear outside my patio door whilst I was playing Volksmusik loud and also "Wenn from die Nilsen Brothers" (from Bayern!) 😸

@vfrmedia That is just WAY beyond my ken pal. Maybe someday, but that is too fine for me for now.

@gemlog I knew this Professor chap (alas, no longer with us but he used to build guitar amps with Syd Barrett!) whose family were originally from Bayern but got split up between DE and NL during the war, and it was (and maybe still is) a standing joke that North Germans would rather speak English than try to understand Bavarian folk. 😆

@gemlog another curiosity is the Dutch pirates play a *lot* of Bavarian and Austrian Volksmusik, complete with yodelling etc - might be a historical thing from when HF/MF was also used, the DBP-Telekom monitoring was in Mainz and pirates also existed in DE, that way if there is any position error on the DF, its not clear whether the station is in NL or DE 😆

@gemlog earlier today the HR manager (who lives nearby) was working from home and got some "security error" (turned out to be false alert due to flaky ISP and network glitches), I walked the 0,7 km to her house, checked everything was OK and also found a better wifi channel for her router.

I did get at least a bottle of red wine for the extra work and also took the opportunity to test my mini UHF pager transmitter (which is also why I wanted a better GIS)..

@pla1 I did manage to get this to work (transferring a GPX from the British Ordnance Survey app to Google), but I wasn't sure if everything is shifted by a few metres (which when dealing with the lower power transmitters can make quite a difference).

as the UK is a small country we use a local grid system and converting between lat/long and this requires quite a bit of hard maths..

@vfrmedia ah bummer. I remember converting State Plane Coordinate System to lat/lon many moons ago. I don't think it went well.

@sophie thanks - just downloaded this and will try it out although the download location has changed from what is on the OSM wiki (the one I used is below).

also I get a blanco map at the moment - but I expect I need to set it up properly

https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/

@vfrmedia Layers -> New Map Layer, choose something that is not Mapquest.

@sophie thanks - rather bizarrely I had to use Microsoft/Bing layer rather than OSM or there is this "API key required" marks all over the map), and street names are currently missing, but I successfully imported the GPX track from earlier and least I've got something that *looks* accurate, matches up with where I expect things to be and Viking has the ruler/marker facility I want

I will experiment with this further once I've found out how to use it properly but it looks promising.. 😎

Further experiments with #Viking #GIS software (HT @sophie for the link) - I've got it to successfully display useful #OpenStreetMap layer (only the #OpenCycleMap requires API key for some reason ), GPS traces and the rulers I wanted..

Only missing feature is conversion to UK grid refs but not major issue as I usually only need a grid ref for Ofcom license of base stations and have mobile phone apps that can provide it+lat/long and found this website to do conversions

https://www.cucaera.co.uk/