[MCARC] Amateur radio licensees on a Google map

[Nate Bargmann]

I have heard of the 3 words deal recently and it seems some years ago.
The problem I have with it is that the words appear to have no
relationship to each other and seem to be completely random on adjacent
squares.  Perhaps I have not looked into it deeply enough.

I really think the Maidenhead grid square system employed in amateur
radio is quite clever and though seeming random does have a pattern to
it.  It can also be used to specify a very small area though it is rare
in amateur use to go beyond the six character Field/Square/Subsquare
notation, e.g. EM19ov.

Wikipedia has a good summary of the system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System

It's too bad that it has not gained acceptance outside of amateur radio.

73, Nate

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