The maidenhead locator system can describe locations anywhere in the world. 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. Please make sure popup blocker is turned otherwise else some features of the application may not work. Ham radio maidenhead grid square locator with openstreetmap qth locator goecoding ha8tks. The two letters that follow a grid square further define your. Double click the downloaded file or use your preferred method to start the software.
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. Maidenhead grid square locator system kb9vbr jpole antennas. The maidenhead grid locator system also qth is a geographic coordinate system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their location. A complete program in basic called universal gridlocator was made available the following year by arrl for a. As bamboo rose, the company will be the only b2b marketplace powered by proven trade engines that allows retailers, wholesalers, and suppliers to work. Its purpose is to be concise, accurate and robust in the face of interference and adverse transmission conditions. A grid square is indicated by two letters the field and. Tradestone software merchandise lifecycle management helpdesk can be reached via email plm. A more common name for the maidenhead locator system and probably more recognisable is grid square. Everyone gets excited when they can see what youre doing.
The software will recalculate the bearing and distance everytime a new character is entered. Here is a very brief introduction to the new grid tracker software free. Now, were evolving to do everything you already love and much more. The map can be centered automaticaly by entering some.
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. None magnetic equator gray line moon footprint time zones cq zones itu zones search. Radio mobile rf propagation simulation software maidenhead. W9ip, has written an excellent program that not only calculates grid squares, but. You can zoom the map with the help of the mouse wheel or the control on the upper left part of the map. Does anyone know of a formula to convert from maidenhead. Maidenhead grid squares divide the globe into 324 large areas of 10 degrees of latitude by 20 degrees of longitude and are called fields. Map your grid squares worked using wg7j gridmapper. Workedgrids is a windows application that displays a map showing the amateur radio grid squares contacted and logged in using a thirdparty logging program. Maidenhead locators are also commonly referred to as qth locator, grid locators or grid squ. Each of these 100 squares represent 1 degree by 2 degrees. It listens to wsjtx or jtdx decodes and displays them on a map for linux, mac, and windows.
A gridsquare, or simply grid, is a small area used to indicate location. 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. Please make sure to disable popup blockers, otherwise some features of the application may not work properly. We use the grid only as this is customary in vhfuhf exchanges. Amateur radio maidenhead grid square locator map karhukoti. An instrument of the maidenhead locator system named after the town. Display on a large second monitor in your amateur radio club, hamfest or as a demonstration in a classroom. I have a list of maidenhead grid squares in an excel sheet that i want to convert to latitude and longitude.
A grid indicater consists of only the first 4 characters, eg. Tradestone software, the award winning solution provider of extended plm solutions is now bamboo rose. Tradestone software merchandise lifecycle management. Each field is identified by 2 alphabetic characters, such as fn. It is better than i could have thought it is a wow. The maidenhead locator system can describe locations anywhere in. Amateur radio ham radio maidenhead grid square locator map.
The maindenhead grid square system identifies fields of 20 degrees of longitude by 20 degrees of latitude. Tradestone s merchandise lifecycle management mlm platform encompasses product design, plm, sourcing, supplier management, order management, finance. Tradestone software supply and demand chain executive. Youve seen these printed on qso cards, but what do they mean. Tradestone is one of the most important changes to the merchandising process we have ever implemented at the company. First enter your own locator in the my locator field and then the target locator in the dx locator field. 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. Remember passwords are case sensitive please make sure to disable popup blockers, otherwise some features of the application may not work properly. Once the program is started, it will display the progress in a console window. View, convert, and distance your locations latitude and longitude to the maidenhead grid locator system for amatuer radio. Also, latitude and longitude for great circle path and distance. Workedgrids uses colors to display information on a perband basis. Ez qra locator new the ez qra locator software is a simple software for the calculation of qra locators. Maidenhead grid locator lookup map lookup grid locators by address or call sign.
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. The maidenhead grid is used extensively by radio amateurs to easily provide location information in a very condensed form. The software will accept 1 to 6 character grid locators. Data provided by or enter any a 4 or 6 character grid square. While the code can calculate and map 6 character subsquare grids.