[Hamlib-developer] Re: [ANN] Hamlib 1.1.3 released

[Stephane F. <f4...@fr...>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002, Riley Williams wrote:
> >	(fillods@charybde:tests)$ ./testloc IN98EC DM33DX
> >	Locator1: IN98EC
> >	Longitude: -0.666667, -1° 40' 0"
> >	Latitude:  48.083333, 48° 5' 0"
> >	Recoded: IN98QC
> >
> >	Locator2: DM33DX
> >	Longitude: -112.750000, -113° 45' 0"
> >	Latitude:  33.958333, 33° 57' 30"
> >	Recoded: DM33PX
> >
> >	Bearing: 8677.35km
> >	Azimuth: 51.782422, 51° 46' 56"
> >
> > Have you noticed ? The recoded locator is broken. 
> 
> Not by my calculation - the recoded locator perfectly matches the
> DMS coordinates given.
> 
> > AFAIR, dec2dms() in src/locator.c is broken, unless it is longlat2locator.
> 
> Looking at the above, there are two obvious bugs:
> 
>  1. dec2dms() is returning the wrong value when given a negative
>     input value. Both negative longitudes are out by exactly 1°,
>     but the positive latitudes are both correct.

okay, thank you for the analisys. Now it should be easy to fix.

> 
>  2. The value labelled "Bearing" is not a bearing, but a distance.

oops, sorry. Looks definitely like english is not my mother-tongue.
I'll have to fix also the comments in the code.
Thank you for that one too!


Cheers,
Stephane