At 10:48 AM 1/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Grid; whats it mean for QRP? Whats it used for?
>I've seen it mentioned on the bottom borders of QRP-L emails.
>How do you find out what grid your "grid" is?
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>Ron - N1ZSW
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"Grid" is actually short for "Grid Square", which is a geographic area that
is one-degree high in latitude and two-degrees wide in longitude. For
example, my location in Nevada is about 39.6 degrees latitude and 119.9
degrees longitude, which puts me in grid DM-09 (DM-09 being a "square" with
39 and 40 degrees as its latitude boundaries and 118 and 120 degrees as
it's logitude boundaries).
The system is really called the "Maidenhead Locator System" due to the fact
that it was developed at a meeting in a village called Maidenhead, outside
London, in Great Britian. The system was widely adopted in the US as the
result of the work of the ARRL's "Ad Hoc Committee on VHF/UHF Contesting"
in the mid-1980's.
More information on the grid locator system can be found on the ARRL web
page at:
If you use the ARRL page search capability, it'll get you to two links, one
to explain grid squares fully and another to calculate your grid square.
Good luck,
Jack Parker, W7PW
QRP-L #1310, SMIRK #3335, DM-09
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