Importing Data from Ham Radio Deluxe to QGISĮxport selected contacts from HRD Logbook to Google Earth (right-click, “Lookup…”) opens an exported KML file in Google Earth and the contact data appears in Google Earth’s “Temporary Places” folder. This information below is probably still of use but if you’re interested in this you should definitely check out Jeff’s page.
Jeff N1YWB got in touch using the comments below and has taken this much further to produce a great tutorial on his blog and some automated tools for QGIS to produce some of the map elements. Change the project’s Coordinate Reference System (CRS) to a great circle type projection, centred on my location.įree world map data is available here: …download suitable files and import appropriate shapefiles (.shp) as new vector layers.īelow are my notes on how I perform the various steps in creating maps.Import the data as a Vector Layer into QGIS.Some light reading around the subject suggests that I basically have two tasks to perform: A friend (with a specialism in Geographical Information Systems, GIS) has pointed me at the open source QGIS software. Amongst other things, this presents a view of my contacts that can be easily related to antenna configuration and directionality. What I’d like to do now is be able to plot the same data onto a Great Circle projection map, centered on my home location to present a view of radio contacts’ direction and distance.
However now that I have some far reaching contacts, Google Earth no longer presents a full view of radio coverage. When your contacts begin to reach further around the globe, Google Earth no longer presents a good overview of coverage…įor a while now I’ve been enjoying the ability to export ham radio logging data from Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook direct to Google Earth for visualisation of my contacts.
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