Ham Radio Grid Squares and Locator Tools
Find resources for Maidenhead grid square calculations, maps, and locator databases for amateur radio operations.
Grid squares, also known as Maidenhead locators, are a fundamental part of amateur radio activity, especially for VHF/UHF operators and contesters. These alphanumeric codes precisely define geographic locations, allowing hams to quickly exchange position information during QSOs and track DX progress. Understanding and using grid squares is essential for many awards and competitive events, providing a standardized way to measure distance and demonstrate operating prowess across different bands.
Operators frequently use online tools and software to convert between geographic coordinates and grid squares, or to find their own locator based on GPS data. This category provides various grid square locator maps, including regional and world maps, useful for planning antenna projects or visualizing QSO coverage. You will also find callsign lookup tools that display a station's grid square, along with applications like WorkedGrids that help track and display contacted grid squares from your logging program.
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List and maps of European squares for each call area. You can use the list, to estimate the location, if you hear a station on the band who's locator you do not know. -
About grid locators and grid squares, includes links to locator and grid square calculators -
Ham Radio Maidenhead Grid Square Locator Geocoding with Google Maps by by HA8TKS -
Several grid square maps on the net, including world maps, regional maps and specific country grid square maps, collected by ve2pij -
On-line calculator for Maidenhead locator calculations. It will work out your Maidenhead locator if you supply it with map references or calculate map references from your locator code. -
Lookup callsigns in locator, or locator of a specified callsign and display in google map -
Click on the map and the QTH locator will be calculated -
A PDF file containing the US grid square map provided by Icom america. -
Maidenhead grid maps for VHF/UHF, These maps make excellent wallpaper for your contest setup. -
WorkedGrids is a Windows application that displays a map showing the amateur radio grid squares contacted and logged in using a third-party logging program. WorkedGrids uses colors to display information on a per-band basis. Up to four bands can be displayed concurrently by VE2ZAZ Bert -
Developed by IZ3MEZ offer a click and show WW locator information using Google Maps API interface. -
Map of locators of Bolivia -
Map of locators of Brasil -
Map of locators of ecuador -
This page introduces the world IARU Grid Locator system, and discusses how to find out what your own Grid Locator is. -
This article taken from the IARU Region 1 VHF handbook, is about the history of the original Locator System named QRA-Locator consisted of just five-character code, two capital letters, a two-digit number and a lower-case letter, like inf example CM72j -
An online interactive grid square map made with openstreet map. Just point and click and zoom in to determine an accurate grid square locator till 10 digit resolution -
This grid locator map uses Google map apis to find your QTH locator by simply clicking on the map. You can either enter your QTH locator and find the calculated distance and bearing between your QTH and another grid square. -
Amateur Radio Ham Radio Maidenhead Grid Square Locator Map online. This map allow just a point and click to determine dynamically the correct six characters locator. Other functions allow to calculate the distances among two given locators, or coordinates. Hover over map, specify grid, or enter latitude and longitude to show grid and/or calculate distance. Map is powered by Bing Maps. -
A large locator map of europe available also on printed format by remoteqth.com -
You can use this tool to calculate the maidenhead square by entering the longitude and latitude. -
Map of locators of Uruguay -
This free PDF file contains two Worldwide grid square maps. The first map displays the fields (first two letters of a maidenhead locator) while the second includes also squares (third and fourth digit) and it can be useful to determine what is your ham radio grid square. PDF file can be enlarged and scaled to A3 and higher dimensions. -
Show CQ and ITU Zone in an interactive clickable map based on google maps. Additional locator tool tip can be displayed by clicking on points, and a search function it is also available to locate addresses, and locators.