Subj : Worldtime.com
To   : Ed Vance
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Oct 03 2016 09:38:10


02 Oct 16 18:37, you wrote to Ben Ritchey:

 EV> In the room I saw a wood Plotting Table that had a map of the area
 EV> about 100 Miles all around my city.

 EV> Each Square was marked with two letters, EJ was the Grid that showed
 EV> where my city was located.

[snip]

 EV> When I was in the Navy, one of the Officers had a Map of the U.S.A.
 EV> that was marked off in Grids and it showed my home located in the EJ
 EV> square, like it showed on the Plotting Table at the GOC Filter Center
 EV> back home.

this sounds like you are talking about the Maidenhead Locators or the old QRA 
Locator...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRA_locator

but the EJ grid you mention seems to be located over the western half of Panama 
and the southern half of Costa Rica...

using the MhL, i'm in grid FM... more specifically FM05...

  http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html


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