Paul,
Not only that but the adresses can be out of date. I am sure I did not reach
Michigan, California or Connecticut on FM simplex from central Viginia and yes
I am sure the calls I copied are good. Even after removing the
/r, /p,/m and SOTA stations I still have 140+ contacts to map. Your points are
a valid consideration and must be accounted for.
The contest stations were easy to spot. The four or five of us using FM were
the only ones calling CQ on a regular basis on FM. When it got dull we even
had our own little "net" going on 223.5 while we monitored 2M and passed
contacts back and forth and discussed bears lightening and our progress. What
a great bunch of guys!!! I love this hobby.
73
John Young
KM4KMU
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On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Aa4zz via VHFcontesting
<vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
The Challenge with using QRZ data is that it shows a stations mailing address
location, not where they operated the contest from.
Stations that operate portable and Rovers will be incorrectly shown.
In a VHF contest there are many of both.
73 Paul AA4ZZ
On 9/19/2016 9:14 PM, John Young via VHFcontesting wrote:
> I would like to pin map my QSO's from the September contest. Does anyone know
> of software that can do this from just the call signs? Using QRZ to locate a
> lat-long, copy it and then type it back in is going to be more painful than I
> want to imagine.
>
>
> 73
> John Young
> KM4KMU
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:28:22 -0400
From: nosigma@aol.com
To: tmayo6@gmail.com
Cc: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Pin Mapping Contacts
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Tom,
Wow, thank yoi for setting that up. I will give it a try tonight.
Since I only have a couple hundred contacts to map I startrd the task last
night plotting lat-long. It was as slow as I feared but then it got a lot
faster.....
I downloaded a 6 digit grid square overlay for google earth. Then by opening
the detail page map on qrz for each call in a window next to google earth I had
street level detail for the QTH and I could compare maps quickly.
By zooming in on google earth to the listed 6 digit grid and matching the roads
up I was able to set the pins within a few feet in most cases. After some
practice it only took about a minute or so per pin to map it out. This is a
reasonable task with just a couple hundred contacts.
Learning a lot from this exercise. When I get done I will post a link to
results.
Tom, I will follow up on the use of the code you so kindly wrote.
73
John
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On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Tom Mayo <tmayo6@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi John and other folks,
I whipped up a quick Cabrillo Log to KML parser and uploaded it to
http://roverlog.2ub.org/.?
Please have a look.? If it's not working for you, you can get debug output with
"Alt-U" just like the other RoverLog modules I have written.
Let me know if you enjoy it.
Thanks,
Tom, N1MU.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:14 PM, John Young via VHFcontesting
<vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
I would like to pin map my QSO's from the September contest.? Does anyone know
of software that can do this from just the call signs?? Using QRZ to locate a
lat-long, copy it and then type it back in is going to be more painful than I
want to imagine.
73
John Young
KM4KMU
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