Here is a very brief introduction to the new grid tracker software free. Tradestone software supply and demand chain executive. Somewhere over the last few days, i saw something somewhere about the wg7j gridmapper and how you can use it to map the locator squares grids that youve worked. Amateur radio ham radio maidenhead grid square locator map. Workedgrids uses colors to display information on a perband basis. Double click the downloaded file or use your preferred method to start the software. Tradestone is one of the most important changes to the merchandising process we have ever implemented at the company. Once the program is started, it will display the progress in a console window. None magnetic equator gray line moon footprint time zones cq zones itu zones search. You can zoom the map with the help of the mouse wheel or the control on the upper left part of the map. Maidenhead grid squares divide the globe into 324 large areas of 10 degrees of latitude by 20 degrees of longitude and are called fields. Maidenhead grid locator lookup map lookup grid locators by address or call sign. First enter your own locator in the my locator field and then the target locator in the dx locator field. Everyone gets excited when they can see what youre doing.
Maidenhead grid square locator system kb9vbr jpole antennas. Tradestone software merchandise lifecycle management. Remember passwords are case sensitive please make sure to disable popup blockers, otherwise some features of the application may not work properly. Ez qra locator new the ez qra locator software is a simple software for the calculation of qra locators. It listens to wsjtx or jtdx decodes and displays them on a map for linux, mac, and windows. A more common name for the maidenhead locator system and probably more recognisable is grid square. Please make sure to disable popup blockers, otherwise some features of the application may not work properly. Maidenhead locators are also commonly referred to as qth locator, grid locators or grid squ. Bamboo rose is the industryleading multienterprise product and supply chain platform, connecting the entire retail community and helping companies bring great products to market faster, more efficiently and at higher margins. As bamboo rose, the company will be the only b2b marketplace powered by proven trade engines that allows retailers, wholesalers, and suppliers to work. A grid square is indicated by two letters the field and. The maidenhead grid is used extensively by radio amateurs to easily provide location information in a very condensed form. The two letters that follow a grid square further define your.
Tradestone is a web based collaborative platform used by some of the worlds largest retailers, brands and wholesalers to find, design, source, buy and sell great merchandise. For more details visit arrl international grid chase. Finally, in 1980 in maidenhead, near london, at a vhf workinggroup meeting, it was decided to adopt a single system that could be used world wide and this system became known as the maidenhead system or simply the locator. W9ip, has written an excellent program that not only calculates grid squares, but. Qgrid maidenhead grid squares calculator, and bearing and distance program radio distance software this is a trivial program which calculates the distance and the bearing between two points. The maidenhead locator system can describe locations anywhere in the world. Radio mobile rf propagation simulation software maidenhead. The maidenhead locator system can describe locations anywhere in. Data provided by or enter any a 4 or 6 character grid square. Please make sure popup blocker is turned otherwise else some features of the application may not work. The objective is to work stations on any band except 60 meters in as many of the worlds 32,400 fourdigit maidenhead grid squares as possible, and then upload your data log to arrls logbook of the world.
Ham radio maidenhead grid square locator geocoding with. View, convert, and distance your locations latitude and longitude to the maidenhead grid locator system for amatuer radio. I have a list of maidenhead grid squares in an excel sheet that i want to convert to latitude and longitude. A complete program in basic called universal gridlocator was made available the following year by arrl for a. The maidenhead locator system is a geographic coordinate system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their locations, which replaced the deprecated qra locator that was limited to european contacts. Gcm is a freeware great circle map plotting software for windows, you can choose colours, scale, meridians, fields and or squares from the maidenhead locator. Now, were evolving to do everything you already love and much more. Does anyone know of a formula to convert from maidenhead. Tradestone software, the award winning solution provider of extended plm solutions is now bamboo rose.
Youve seen these printed on qso cards, but what do they mean. It is better than i could have thought it is a wow. The only thing i could find is a set of shapefiles for the maidenhead grid system. Display on a large second monitor in your amateur radio club, hamfest or as a demonstration in a classroom. The software will accept 1 to 6 character grid locators. The software will recalculate the bearing and distance everytime a new character is entered. The maidenhead grid locator system also qth is a geographic coordinate system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their location. The maindenhead grid square system identifies fields of 20 degrees of longitude by 20 degrees of latitude. Each field is identified by 2 alphabetic characters, such as fn.
We use the grid only as this is customary in vhfuhf exchanges. The grid square locator, also known as the maidenhead locator system, is a geographical coordinate method based on a 6digit code, widely used by amateur radio operators to determine a rough position on the earth. Tradestone s merchandise lifecycle management mlm platform encompasses product design, plm, sourcing, supplier management, order management, finance. Also, latitude and longitude for great circle path and distance. While the code can calculate and map 6 character subsquare grids. Convertor by tk5ep 2014 convertor written by patrick egloff tk5ep move the mouse over the map and this page will show you latitude and longitude coordinates in wgs84 both decimal and dms, utm as well as maidenhead format. An instrument of the maidenhead locator system named after the town. Workedgrids is a windows application that displays a map showing the amateur radio grid squares contacted and logged in using a thirdparty logging program. The map can be centered automaticaly by entering some. A grid indicater consists of only the first 4 characters, eg. Each of these 100 squares represent 1 degree by 2 degrees. Map your grid squares worked using wg7j gridmapper.
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