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Map your contest QSOs

Posted: 08 Jul 2020 08:12 AM PDT
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Shortly after Field Day ended, Bill WC3B posted a map of the contacts he
made on Twitter. How cool, I thought, and asked him how hed done it. As it
turns out, the map was a function of the N3FJP Field Day logging program.

It then occurred to me that there must be mapping programs on the web. I
did a quick Google to find two websites that would allow me to generate a
map of my own: LogView by EI8IC and Log2Map by ON6ZQ.
Log View

LogView is a free, post-contest log-visualisation tool. It plots the QSOs
in a Cabrillo-format contest-log on to one of 8 different maps by finding
the position of each QSO from an online database of about 1,100,000 W/VE
callsigns. Heres the map generated by Log View:



This tool can do more than just produce a map. Its worth checking out if
you want to analyze your contest logs.

Log2Map

Log2Map accepts both Cabrillo and ADIF files and generates a map like the
one shown below:



I kinda like this map better than the LogView map, but I wish that I could
change the marker. I think the marker is a little bit big for this kind of
map.

I found a couple of other mapping websites, but many of them wanted the log
to contain the latitudes and longitudes. I didnt know how to do that
quickly, so I just moved on.

There must be others out there that I didnt find. If you know of any
others, please comment below.

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