Repeater map 2.0

Sometime ago I started creating a Finish repeater map with Google Fusion Tables. I discussed with my friend Hessu about the map. We noticed that it would be create to actually show the locator of a repeater instead of the closest city.

I created a small java program which fetched a nice kml file based on the repeater's locator information by using the publicly available kml creator service by W8AN. The program then parsed the kml files and located the subgridsquere part of the kml which had the information needed to draw the closest possible grid.

That placemarks description element is then overwritten with the information found from the repeater lists file and then again written to a separate kml file. This kml file was uploaded to the Google Fusion Tables.

For the kml manipulation I used a library called jak.

The first version of the map (some repeaters still missing, both 2m and 70cm repeaters have  same pin color) can be found below or from the fusion tables. You can see the locations by zooming the map closer the the actual pins.

 

 

A normal Google Maps version available here.

 

First digi QSOs

Today I basically had my first digital QSOs. Working with bpsk31 is very easy and you don't actually need to do anything to have the setup running. 

One very interesting site for investigating the propagation contidition is pskreporter.info . Please find my first test map below. For more detailed information please refer to pskreporter site.

And yes, I haven't yet continued my paper log project ...

 

 

 

Repeater map

Finnish repeaters can be found under SRAL's web pages. However it could be nice to see repeater information in a map. I have seen such maps from other countries. 

While I was coding the QSO map application I noticed that Google has introduced a functionality called Fusion Tables. In short it means that you are able to create dynamic maps e.g. using a simple csv file. 

I retrieved the information from SRAL's repeater list. Modified it a bit and saved it as a simple excel sheet. Then I made a Fusion Table by importing this file to Google docs. 

First version of the Finnish 2m and 70cm repeater map can be found below or from here. 

 

QSO Map

Hi,

It seems that you are able to make s pretty simple QSO map direcly from HRD. But what if you are not using HRD?

I'm currently using the dxkeeper and it does not provide similar funtionality nor does clublog. Last nigth I made a simple java program which parses the export adif file, reads the worked dxcc's and calls the Google static map API. Simple but seems to work. Here is the first version of the map. Also available here.

Short list of ideas (roadmap) for the app. I may continue it if I have time.

  • Different colors (pin) for different bands
  • Proper error handling
  • Servlet / JSP implementation or simple GUI
  • Proper command line arguments
  • Dynamic map implementation
  • Separate the ADIF parser to it's own package (library)
  • Testing

 

 

About my hobby

Hi, 

Welcome to my radio amateur related homepage. I have been a licenced radio amateur from 1994. I had a short QRT season between 2000 - 2010. 

These pages have been created in order to share additional information with fellow hams. 

Please find my last QSO's from clublog from my QRZ page.

 

73 de Tuomas

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