[CQ-Contest] finding the Maidenhead Grid

[Tim EI8IC]

My website also tries to be helpful. Here is a page explaining the system:
http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/maps/gridloc.html

and if you download the Global Overlay Mapper:
http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/gom/intro.html

the status bar provides a readout of cursor location in Maidenhead
Locator for every point on every map.

73s Tim EI8IC
currently in Delhi


> > Here is the list which I got from Wikopedia. May be it will help to see
> > what
> > is
> > the real opportunity:
> >
> >    * ARRLWeb: Grid Locators and Grid Squares
> > http://www.arrl.org/locate/gridinfo.html
> >    * ARRLWeb: Calculate Grid Square http://www.arrl.org/locate/grid.html
> >    * Find your QTH locator with GoogleMaps
> > http://f6fvy.free.fr/qthLocator/
> >    * Find QTH locator or grid square with GoogleMaps
> >      and approximate distance between two squares
> > http://qth.map.googlepages.com/
> >    * Generate a KML file from a Maidenhead coordinate
> >    * Perl module for converting between geographic coordinates and
> > Maidenhead locator and calculating distance and bearing
> >    * Hamlib, a portable library for converting between geographic
> > coordinates
> >      and Maidenhead locator and calculating distance and bearing
> >    * C# class for converting between geographic coordinates and Maidenhead
> > locator and calculating distance and bearing
> >    * A small Java application to display the current Grid Locator for
> > phones with GPS capability such as the Nokia N95
> >      http://calum.org/maidenhead
> >
> >>From my self will add that MixW program automatically calculate the Grid
> > number for users.
> > DX Atlas also will show exactly what is this number.
> >
> > 73!
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > RW4WZ