Oklahoma (State of) scanner enthusiast dinner meet

[hawkeye]

36.43n
96.39w

 

[KD5WLX]

Whether I'd try to make it or not would depend on where, when, and the current price of gas!

 

[tiawah466]

I could go, just could not stay and party all night if it was a weeknight now that I am a full time college student again.
36.28N 95.54W

 

[mam1081]

N35.56
W95.52

This is what is plotted. Bixby is at about 35.95N, 95.87W.

The location is basically up to who replies. I'll add your coordinate to calculate the location, since you want to come. The more people that reply from Tulsa, the closer to Tulsa I propose the meeting will be (and same for OKC and Elk City!!).

Jay, I didn't see your coordinates.

So far, the averaged position of the people that are interested is near Stroud, OK (it's at 35.77864°N, 96.7755°W if you want to plot it out right now). This includes me, freqscout, Hardy, d stew, and tiawah466. If you want to be included in this figuring for this meeting, let me know. I guess I could set a deadline for the end of the month (11:59:59 PM on 8/31/06). Maybe we can plan the meeting for September or October. Any weekends out? I wouldn't think having it over Labor Day weekend would give us enough time to plan. That gives us Sept 9/10, 16/17, 23/24, 30/Oct1, 7/8, 14/15, 21/22, 28/29. I'm out if we plan on the Sept 16/17 or 23/24 so far. I'll remove my coordinates from the average if everyone picks a day that I can't be there (and would like to do that with anyone else that won't be there to be fair to everyone else).

 

[CommShrek]

This is what is plotted. Bixby is at about 35.95N, 95.87W.

Ah ha. There's the problem. You have your GPS (or mapping software) set to Degrees instead of Degrees, Minutes, Seconds.

 

[okccsi]

This is what is plotted. Bixby is at about 35.95N, 95.87W.

The location is basically up to who replies. I'll add your coordinate to calculate the location, since you want to come. The more people that reply from Tulsa, the closer to Tulsa I propose the meeting will be (and same for OKC and Elk City!!).

Jay, I didn't see your coordinates.

So far, the averaged position of the people that are interested is near Stroud, OK (it's at 35.77864°N, 96.7755°W if you want to plot it out right now). This includes me, freqscout, Hardy, d stew, and tiawah466. If you want to be included in this figuring for this meeting, let me know. I guess I could set a deadline for the end of the month (11:59:59 PM on 8/31/06). Maybe we can plan the meeting for September or October. Any weekends out? I wouldn't think having it over Labor Day weekend would give us enough time to plan. That gives us Sept 9/10, 16/17, 23/24, 30/Oct1, 7/8, 14/15, 21/22, 28/29. I'm out if we plan on the Sept 16/17 or 23/24 so far. I'll remove my coordinates from the average if everyone picks a day that I can't be there (and would like to do that with anyone else that won't be there to be fair to everyone else).

I could have sworn I already checked in an gave my location. Did I miss something?

 

[mam1081]

I could have sworn I already checked in an gave my location. Did I miss something?

You did, but you didn't say if you would come or not. I guess you want to be added to the "yes, I'll come".

Ah ha. There's the problem. You have your GPS (or mapping software) set to Degrees instead of Degrees, Minutes, Seconds.

From the 1st post:

....Also, you might want to post your approximate lat/long here (dd.dd format - only 2 digits in the decimal please). ...
1 vote for 35.51°N, 97.60°W

No mistake about it. I was asking for degrees. It's much easier to work with in my humble opinion. I don't know why scanner manufacturers and people put decimals in the deg.min.sec format. Not to start a big discussion on that, but in my opinion, if you want to do that format, it should be xx°yy'zz.zz" N/S/E/W.

So your location, CommShrek will be changed on the map to reflect the location of 35.93°N, 95.86°W (which looks to be really close to Bixby). I'll change it and update averages this evening. I'm glad we're getting this all sorted out! Thanks for finding that.

 

[KD5WLX]

It was a few posts up, (now on page one) but here it is again:

Lat: 36d 8' 43" N or 36.145326
Long: 95d 54' 22" W or -95.90613

Note that this makes three ways to show coordinates - the second way on each line in mine is "decimal degrees" - 36 degrees 30 minutes would be 36.5.

 

[AE5C]

Change my dot to blue. I plan on attending.

 

[mam1081]

OK, so here are the people in on the average of 35.784°N 96.786°W:

mam1081, freqscout, ke5jba, Hardy, d stew, KD5WLX, and tiawah466

Here is a map (red=no meeting, yellow=unknown, blue=going to meeting):

 

[okccsi]

Yes! Blue!