`baken`¶

baken - Imports baken data files.

class upoints.baken.Baken(latitude, longitude, antenna=None, direction=None, frequency=None, height=None, locator=None, mode=None, operator=None, power=None, qth=None)[source]¶

Bases: upoints.point.Point

Class for representing location from baken data files.

New in version 0.4.0.

Initialise a new Baken object.

Parameters:

latitude (float) – Location’s latitude
longitude (float) – Location’s longitude
antenna (str) – Location’s antenna type
direction (tuple of int) – Antenna’s direction
frequency (float) – Transmitter’s frequency
height (float) – Antenna’s height
locator (str) – Location’s Maidenhead locator string
mode (str) – Transmitter’s mode
operator (tuple of str) – Transmitter’s operator
power (float) – Transmitter’s power
qth (str) – Location’s qth

Raises:

LookupError – No position data to use

class upoints.baken.Bakens(baken_file=None)[source]¶

Bases: upoints.point.KeyedPoints

Class for representing a group of Baken objects.

New in version 0.5.1.

Initialise a new Bakens object.

import_locations(baken_file)[source]¶

Import baken data files.

import_locations() returns a dictionary with keys containing the section title, and values consisting of a collection Baken objects.

It expects data files in the format used by the baken amateur radio package, which is Windows INI style files such as:

[Abeche, Chad]
latitude=14.460000
longitude=20.680000
height=0.000000

[GB3BUX]
frequency=50.000
locator=IO93BF
power=25 TX
antenna=2 x Turnstile
height=460
mode=A1A

The reader uses the configparser module, so should be reasonably robust against encodings and such. The above file processed by import_locations() will return the following dict object:

{"Abeche, Chad": Baken(14.460, 20.680, None, None, None, 0.000,
                       None, None, None, None, None),
 "GB3BUX": : Baken(None, None, "2 x Turnstile", None, 50.000,
                   460.000, "IO93BF", "A1A", None, 25, None)}

Args::: baken_file (iter): Baken data to read

Returns:	Named locations and their associated values
Return type:	dict

baken¶

`baken`¶