1IBP(1) General Commands Manual IBP(1)
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6 ibp - show which of the International Beacon Project beacons is trans‐
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10 ibp [arguments]
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14 IBP shows which of the beacons of the International Beacon Project is
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19 a band expressed either in MHz (14, 18, 21, 24 or 28) or in meters (20,
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23 a Maidenhead locator (like JO32KF), to be used for the calculation of
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42 Note: since each beacon transmission lasts only 10 seconds, your com‐
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48 The International Beacon Project is a set of 18 amateur (ham) radio
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59 The X11 display code is heavily based on the 'sunclock' program by John
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