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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>Hello Bob...</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>Just a note to thank you for your
extreme efforts toward uniformity and consistancy within APRS. I have been a
subscriber to aprssig for a little over a month now, and I've been having a
wonderful time reading the posts to you and about you from the 'engineers' who
would like to define their universe (wherever THAT may be) in terms of boxes and
other strict geometric shapes and configurations! </STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>My take on it is....that we're
talking about spatiality and indefinite locations. I see an ambiguous location
as one within a sphere of influence that might be pictured much like a radiation
pattern of an antenna. What a novel idea, eh? What advantages grid-squares have
on a map is for guidance alone, and until we get holographic imaging in APRS, I
suppose a map will have to do. After all, it IS the frame of reference that even
earlier Flat-Earthers had of their planet. My world exists as a sphere with no
'straight' lines to or from anywhere. Therefore, your idea of the concept of
ambiguity fits into my frame of 'location'. </STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>There is always going to be the
nay-sayers who would dispute that black is white and night is day, and the same
holds true in the previous 'discussion' of ambiguity. You'll not be able to
change their minds, but you just might change their direction of thinking. This
is similar to the concept of a vote. Votes don't count.....issues do. On the
other side of ambiguity lies improbability. It is improbable in my mind to
conceive of anything but a circle (sphere of one dimension) as representing an
ambibuous position! All those well-meaning folks need to do is THINK OUTSIDE OF
THE BOX! But, to do that, you first have to take away their straight-edged
mindset. </STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>A fact I find absolutely amazing is
that they are attempting to tell you what you are thinking, and therefore become
authors of APRS. It does present a form of 'devine' comedy at times, doesn't it?
Many blind men trying to describe how an elephant looks! It looks like an
elephant, of course!</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>Best
regards...</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>Harry Martin</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>AB7X</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593370820-11012008><STRONG>541-754-1136</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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