[TangerineSDR] IGRF Python Package

[John Ackermann]

We have the web.tapr.org Linux VM at a hosting company.

On Apr 1, 2020, 1:07 PM, at 1:07 PM, Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org> wrote:
>I have hosted the open-source gitlab software on a VM on my home
>server.
>It seems to work-alike to
>github, but it avoids reliance on 'someone else' since it is open
>source.
>It installed and
>came up with minimal effort.  I cannot test the email capabilities as
>my
>ISP doesn't let their customers
>export MX records to DNS.  This is a common problem with dynamic DNS,
>as
>ISP's are weary to host
>user mail exchanges because fly-by-night email spammers would be a
>continual problem.
>
>Should we identify a server under project control and test out 
>something
>like this?
>
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:50 AM Phil Erickson <phil.erickson at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   I strongly recommend that this project
>>
>> a) use revision control
>> b) host its own SVN / git / etc. server
>>
>>   Relying on things like GitHub is not safe in the long term, because
>> corporate decisions can change abruptly on what is offered free to
>the
>> community and what is not.  Also, many of the "free" services make
>> absolutely no guarantees about where any of the data is backed up,
>what the
>> backup schedule is, etc.
>>
>>   I relate these pieces of advice from painful experience at MIT
>> Haystack.  Our group believed Dropbox when they rolled out a storage
>plan
>> with very large upper bound limits for MIT.  A couple years ago, they
>> abruptly cancelled that policy and assigned a very large per year fee
>for
>> the storage we had been using.  I'm still trying to figure out how to
>> extract 100s of TB of data from them, and some of it may be lost for
>good.
>>
>> 73
>> Phil W1PJE
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:45 AM Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR <
>> tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve - thanks for the offer !
>>>
>>> This brings up a general question:  should TangerineSDR / PSWS host
>this
>>> kind of software someplace?
>>> One could imagine that over time there may be an increasing number
>of
>>> software utilities and packages of
>>> interest to the group, it would be nice to have them accessible
>through
>>> one link or portal (ideally with revision control ! ).
>>>
>>> Is this something the group should consider?  If so, is github the
>right
>>> solution?, a page of links?, something else?
>>>
>>> -- Tom, N5EG
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 5:57 AM Stephen Roland Kaeppler via
>TangerineSDR <
>>> tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All-
>>>>
>>>> I will add a comment if it is of interest, that I wrote some code a
>>>> while back in python that directly calculates the magnetic field
>using the
>>>> IGRF coefficients and derivatives (useful in a ray tracer).  If you
>guys
>>>> want that, I could package it up and send it over to anyone
>interested.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Stephen R. Kaeppler, Ph.D.
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Physics and Astronomy
>>>> Clemson University
>>>> Clemson, SC 29634
>>>> Email: skaeppl at clemson.edu
>>>> Phone: 864-656-4275
>>>> Web: http://science.clemson.edu/kaeppler/
>>>> Amateur Radio Callsign: AD0AE
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> ----
>> Phil Erickson
>> phil.erickson at gmail.com
>>
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