[Elecraft] cool software Idea

[Phil LaMarche]

To make this even easier, seeing the station you wish to work, with miles,
short and long path, location and beam heading etc, order Comm Cat and
really enjoy ham radio.  When I see the station I would like to work, I
click on that station and it changes the K3 to that freq and all the
setting.  Also logs for you and many other features.  Google Comm Cat and
down load a free demo.  If you buy it, it's cheap and worth every penny.

Phil


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-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of dw
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:44 AM
To: Elecraft_List
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] cool software Idea

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
--
 Bw_dw at fastmail.net

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