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  2. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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    Radar beacon. Racon signal as seen on a radar screen. This beacon receives using sidelobe suppression and transmits the letter "Q" in Morse code near Boston Harbor (Nahant) 17 January 1985. Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [1 ...

  3. Maidenhead Locator System - Wikipedia

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    Maidenhead Locator System. The Maidenhead Locator System (a.k.a. QTH Locator and IARU Locator) is a geocode system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their geographic coordinates, which replaced the deprecated QRA locator, which was limited to European contacts. [1] Its purpose is to be concise, accurate, and robust in the ...

  4. Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site - Wikipedia

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    An exoatmospheric kill vehicle ( kinetic penetrator, mid-phase) is launched from Meck Island on 3 December 2001. The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range ), is a missile test range in Marshall Islands ( Pacific Ocean ).

  5. Area code 606 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 606 is a telephone area code serving the eastern half of south-central and all of the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Cities and towns in the area code include Ashland, Morehead, Hazard, Middlesboro, Somerset, Stanford, London, Corbin, Greenup, Paintsville, Pikeville and Maysville. Most of its service area lies within ...

  6. Open Location Code - Wikipedia

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    The Open Location Code system is based on latitudes and longitudes in WGS84 coordinates. Each code describes an area bounded by two parallels and two meridians out of a fixed grid, identified by the southwest corner and its size.

  7. Reverse geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Examples of these services include the GeoNames reverse geocoding web service which has tools to identify nearest street address, place names, Wikipedia articles, country, county subdivisions, neighbourhoods, and other location data from a coordinate.

  8. List of Maryland area codes - Wikipedia

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    List of Maryland area codes. The blue area is assigned area codes 301, 240, and 227; the red area is area codes 410, 443 and 667. The state of Maryland is served by the following area codes: Area codes. Numbering plan area.

  9. Area codes 214, 469, 972, and 945 - Wikipedia

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    Area codes 214, 469, 972, and 945 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Dallas, Texas and most of the eastern portion of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

  10. Internet geolocation - Wikipedia

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    IP address geolocation can be also used in fraud detection to match billing address postal code or area code. Banks can prevent " phishing " attacks, money laundering and other security breaches by determining the user's location as part of the authentication process.

  11. List of Wisconsin area codes - Wikipedia

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    Area code map for Wisconsin. The U.S. state of Wisconsin is serviced in five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs) with the following area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area codes 414 and 715 were among the original North American area codes assigned in 1947.