[Elecraft] cool software Idea

[dw]

It turns out I was able to accomplish a little of this myself in Excel.
I found a web-site that offered free downloads of U.S. zip codes with
City, State and Long/Lat values.
I imported this into excel and applied the distance formula.
I can now type in a U.S. zip code into a field and the sheet will
display the city, state and the distance in miles/kilometers from my
station.

I played with it a little last night listening to various cw QSOs on 80m
and 40m just to see what the typical distance and sig-strenghts were.  
Plug the call into a zip code search based on callsign.
Then plug the derived zip code into the sheet.
Perhaps if I buy a Ham Call data CD I can get excel to read the CD and
automate the process.
I know there is a way to incorporate a U.S. Map into Excel, and I may be
able to add that as a feature.
It would be cool to be able to do the whole thing in excel with a little
VB in the background!!  :^D
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