M3OYQ Amateur Radio Station

Been playling around with some code this weekend, and had the idea of plotting my logbook using the Google Maps API.  Looking in my logbook however I don’t have many contacts with their Maidenhead Grid Locator, so looking back through my email I found a copy of M0GGO’s Ham radio deluxe database., from early 2007. Using php+mysql+javascript+Mdb tools I created this map of Chris’s Contacts.  The page takes a little while to load as there is quite a lot of data here.  I’ve added a couple of the fields from the database to the tags so when you click on a marker a bit of info about the QSO is printed to the screen.  Different colour icons represent different bands worked, however I ran out of icons so some of the bands share the same colour.

Check out the Visual Logbook Google Map HERE It takes about a minute for all the markers to load on to the map - please be patient

Let me know what you think.  :)  I’m thinking of making this into a blog plugin is anyone is interested

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