Comments on: Find that maidenhead grid locator for an address http://www.k2dsl.com/2009/05/22/find-that-maidenhead-grid-locator-for-an-address/ In the chair and on the air... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:25:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Siegfried Rambaum KB2YVC http://www.k2dsl.com/2009/05/22/find-that-maidenhead-grid-locator-for-an-address/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Siegfried Rambaum KB2YVC Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:32:27 +0000 http://www.k2dsl.com/?p=393#comment-254 I cannot address the problem of AF4IF, but while the google map associated with my call on QRZ.com states the correct address, the location pointer on that map is off by about half a mile in a north-by-northnorthwesterly direction. My QTH is a few yards south of Gray Road, not several hundred north. Something else is odd about that map: When zooming in, the google map identifies a part of Gray Road as 'Park Road'. In the reality of my location, that one is still called 'Gray Road'... Thus my advice: take the location pointers on google maps at QRZ as some vague hint for a QTH's real location being somewhere in the vicinity of the maps point indicated only. 73, KB2YVC I cannot address the problem of AF4IF, but while the google map associated with my call on QRZ.com states the correct address, the location pointer on that map is off by about half a mile in a north-by-northnorthwesterly direction. My QTH is a few yards south of Gray Road, not several hundred north.

Something else is odd about that map: When zooming in, the google map identifies a part of Gray Road as ‘Park Road’. In the reality of my location, that one is still called ‘Gray Road’…

Thus my advice: take the location pointers on google maps at QRZ as some vague hint for a QTH’s real location being somewhere in the vicinity of the maps point indicated only.

73, KB2YVC

]]> By: K2DSL http://www.k2dsl.com/2009/05/22/find-that-maidenhead-grid-locator-for-an-address/comment-page-1/#comment-224 K2DSL Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:56:22 +0000 http://www.k2dsl.com/?p=393#comment-224 Jose, Thanks for providing some feedback. I'll follow this up with an email to you as well. I'm not sure of what your issue is at the moment. If I go to <a href="http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php</a> and enter in your call sign, it comes back with your address from QRZ and then looks up that address on Google. It finds the address on Google and determines your grid square to be EL95us which also matches what QRZ.com has for your grid locator. Are you indicating that based on your address in QRZ you are not in grid square EL95us? What information is telling you that you should be in a different grid square? If you zoom in on the Google map, is it showing the map point at your location properly or is Google picking a different address then where you actually live? 73, K2DSL Jose, Thanks for providing some feedback. I’ll follow this up with an email to you as well. I’m not sure of what your issue is at the moment.

If I go to http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php and enter in your call sign, it comes back with your address from QRZ and then looks up that address on Google. It finds the address on Google and determines your grid square to be EL95us which also matches what QRZ.com has for your grid locator.

Are you indicating that based on your address in QRZ you are not in grid square EL95us? What information is telling you that you should be in a different grid square?

If you zoom in on the Google map, is it showing the map point at your location properly or is Google picking a different address then where you actually live?

73,
K2DSL

]]> By: Jose R. Corteguera AF4IF http://www.k2dsl.com/2009/05/22/find-that-maidenhead-grid-locator-for-an-address/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Jose R. Corteguera AF4IF Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:12:27 +0000 http://www.k2dsl.com/?p=393#comment-223 Dears, I have a problem, My Locator EL95us is no correct. How I find this ??. My Latitud is 25.45.3925 N. and my Longitud is 80,19.3435 W. Many Thanks for your help Jose AF4IF I appreciate your help Dears, I have a problem, My Locator EL95us is no correct. How I find this ??.
My Latitud is 25.45.3925 N. and my Longitud is
80,19.3435 W.
Many Thanks for your help Jose AF4IF
I appreciate your help

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