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Re: [VHFcontesting] Pin Mapping Contacts

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Pin Mapping Contacts
From: Aa4zz via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Aa4zz <aa4zz@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:49:06 -0400
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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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Message: 3
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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