++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:11:28 -0400 From: "John L. \"Jake\" Carter" To: , "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: [108132] RE: Web Site For Grid Squares Locating -- ARRL sites Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The ARRL has a site at http://www.arrl.org/locate/grid.html You enter your Latitude and Longitude and it provides your grid square. If you need you Lat and Long, check out the ARRL's http://www.arrl.org/locate/locate.html You enter your town and it provides your Latitude and Longitude. 73, Jake -- N4UY ++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:04:23 EDT From: ARDUJENSKI at aol.com To: qrp-l at lehigh.edu Subject: [108147] Grid Square Info (KB7MBI) Message-ID: <127.527ee4b.28efceb7 at aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://ac6v.com/opaids.htm#GRID Alan KB7MBI in Woodinville, WA ++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 02:13:31 -0400 From: Larry Cahoon To: bowerm at ix.netcom.com, "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: [108047] Re: lat/long values Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005020740.00b9ddf8 at pop.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I like http://www.topozone.com You have to identify a topo map near you, but if you pick the name of a significant town that will usually get you close enough, then you can walk the map to your QTH then go the highest detail. You can stick a marker at your QRT and read the lat/long at the top of the map. It is usually in NAD27 datum rather than WSG84. Those are just two differenct ways of plotting lat/long on the earth. You don't really need to be concerned about then as the difference is so small is almost never matters for purposes of getting your grid coordinate. 73 de Larry...........WD3P in MD http://www.qsl.net/wd3p/ At 09:37 PM 10/4/2001 -0400, Michael Bower wrote: >Is there one place on the web that is better for getting my lat/long? I >tried several well known mapping sites and most of them put my house >(according to their map) in the wrong place. Got the street right but >the house was off by 1/2 - 1 block. > >I need this for getting my grid mark. > >TIA > >Michael > >-- >73 de N4NMR >Michael Bower >Ashburn, VA (near Washington, D.C.) ++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:25:03 -0800 From: Jim Larsen To: Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion Subject: [108048] Website for figuring out Lat/Long of a location Message-ID: <3BBD19FF.EC5F380F at ARRL.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had excellent results with http://www.mapblast.com/ You can customize the location of the icon, add in your callsign and the Lat/Long are read out to upteen decimals in the upper right corner of the map. Very nice and it almost dead center my house on first try. I moved it left by one house to nail it closer. Good luck. 73, Jim -- Jim Larsen, AL7FS, Anchorage, Alaska (BP51cc) - 61.101 North, 149.824 West mailto:al7fs at arrl.net - http://www.qsl.net/al7fs/ ++++++++++++++++++