[VHFcontesting] "Maidenhead" iPhone App

[Trent Fleming]

I downloaded the app today, and it seems to work well.  I'm traveling
East tomorrow about 350 miles, will test it out along the way!

Thanks, Nate, for pointing it out.

73,

Trent
N4DTF

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> For those roving in the contest...
>
> I had an e-mail from another fellow ham a month or two ago saying that
> his young son's first attempt at programming and releasing "real"
> software resulted in the program available on the iTunes App Store as
> "Maidenhead".
>
> It's a measly buck, and it works great mixing the AT&T "assisted" cell
> network location information and the real GPS receiver in the iPhone
> 3G (and I assume at least using the assisted mode on the older iPhones
> that don't have GPS...) to give you your Maidenhead grid locator to
> "eight places"...
>
> Just thought I'd mention it again if I hadn't to this list.  For $1...
> it's hard to go wrong, and it encourages a ham's kid who just wrote
> his first commercially-released program.
>
> --
> Nate Duehr, WY0X
> nate at natetech.com
>
>
>
>
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