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The New QSL Mapper

One of the fun traditions of ham radio is sending a QSL card to another station to confirm a contact. To do that, you need the address of the receiving station. It's also interesting to find out how far away the QTH, (location), of the station actually was, and operating QRP with the Rockmite, I'm always curious about what the miles per watt number for the contact was as well.

The Copasetic Flow QSL mapper below shows all that information! Just enter your callsign, click 'Locate', then enter the callsign of the receiving station and click 'Locate' again. Both stations will be mapped and the distance between them and the watts per mile will be displayed!



You can install this gadget on your own iGoogle home page, or on any web page by using the installer from Google.
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Anonymous said…
Not working for me ... I can see half of the Map/Satellite/Hybrid buttons but everything below that is blank.

Running Internet Explorer 7

73 de Graham G3ZOD
December 7, 2008 at 6:08 AM
antigrav_kids KD0FNR said…
Thanks for pointing that out Graham! The application has been fixed and now displays properly on IE as well. Due to Googles caching policies, the corrected version of the code may not show up for another six hours.
December 7, 2008 at 8:16 AM
Anonymous said…
Good job! 73 de AA9UC
December 14, 2008 at 2:26 PM
antigrav_kids KD0FNR said…
TNX 'Grampy' and AA9UC!

73 de KD0FNR
December 14, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Anonymous said…
Don't know about a fix, but I'm using IE7 and when I enter the call signs and click locate, nothing happens.
December 17, 2008 at 7:47 PM
antigrav_kids KD0FNR said…
Thanks for the info on IE7. I'm using it here and everything is working great. When you enter the call signs, do you see word 'Loading...' displayed? What call signs are you using? Do you have javascript enabled on your browser? Thanks again.
December 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Anonymous said…
Works great using Mozilla Firefox!
January 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
W4QO said…
Very nice progarm. Keep up the good work. I'm sending all the NoGA QRP club over here to calculate their miles/watt now.

jim/w4qo
January 20, 2009 at 5:01 AM
antigrav_kids KD0FNR said…
Tnx fer the fb feedback Anonymous and W4QO!

73 de KD0FNR Hamilton
January 20, 2009 at 5:29 AM
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