The Pine Valley Repeater Amateur Radio Club
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The Pine Valley Repeater Amateur Radio Club |
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When making contacts on the HF bands, your contact may want to know your GRID SQUARE locator number. Using this program will help you find either Grid Square locators or the latitude/ longitude of a particular location.
The latitude/longitude for Richland Center, WI is: 43.34 N - 90.38 W. The exact latitude/longitude of MY house is: 43.340906 N - 90.379098 W. What's yours?
The Grid Square number for our area is: EN43ti
For a map of United States grid squares, go here.
Here is another "fun" site. With this site you can determine the EXACT latitude/longitude for your QTH. This is the program I used to determine the lat./long. for my house. Go here.
GridSquare ConversionThe Maidenhead Locator System is used to divide the world up into grid squares, identified by a four-character or six-character grid square locator. This form allows you to enter either a grid square locator or the latitude and longitude of a location. If you enter a grid square and select Convert to Lat/Lon, the latitude and longitude fields will be filled in with the postion of the center of the grid square.
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