1IBP(1)                      General Commands Manual                     IBP(1)
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NAME

6       ibp  - show which of the International Beacon Project beacons is trans‐
7       mitting
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SYNOPSIS

10       ibp [arguments]
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DESCRIPTION

14       IBP shows which of the beacons of the International Beacon  Project  is
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17       The following arguments can be used:
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19       a band expressed either in MHz (14, 18, 21, 24 or 28) or in meters (20,
20       17, 15, 12 or 10); if no band  is  specified,  the  program  starts  in
21       multi-band mode.
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23       a  Maidenhead  locator (like JO32KF), to be used for the calculation of
24       distance and azimuth (both short and long path) to each beacon.
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27       -c, --nocolour
28              don't use colour, even on a colour terminal.
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32              display callsign of active beacon in morse code (not  in  multi-
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36       -x, --nograph
37              don't  open  the X11 window (showing a world map with the beacon
38              locations, and short and long paths) even if the  DISPLAY  envi‐
39              ronment  variable  is set.  This option is only available if X11
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42       Note: since each beacon transmission lasts only 10 seconds,  your  com‐
43       puter's clock should be set reasonably accurately for the results to be
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THE INTERNATIONAL BEACON PROJECT

48       The International Beacon Project is a set of  18  amateur  (ham)  radio
49       transmitters  around  the world, each of which transmit every 3 minutes
50       on a set of 5 short-wave frequencies.   This  allows  short-wave  radio
51       users  to  quickly assess the current worldwide propagation conditions.
52       Much more information can be found on http://www.ncdxf.org/beacons.html
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AUTHOR

56       Pieter-Tjerk de  Boer  <pa3fwm@amsat.org>;  via  amateur  packet-radio:
57       PA3FWM @ PI8DAZ.#TWE.NLD.EU.
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59       The X11 display code is heavily based on the 'sunclock' program by John
60       Mackin <john@cs.su.oz.AU>.
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