![]() Once the address is found, you need to move your mouse over map point that is placed. More often then not it finds the address, but in some cases, you need to trim DX address info if it doesn’t know the specific street address, but it gets you close enough. I usually just copy/paste the address from QRZ for the callsign I contacted and paste it in. It does a good job at finding the location. If you go to and if necessary provide your call sign as a login, you can enter in the address you want in the text entry address box on the right side of the map page and press search. The alternative is using a site I’ve previously used for APRS. ![]() When I posted recently asking if anyone was going to address that useful site feature and try to get it working again, someone posted an alternative to use until the page gets fixed (assuming it gets fixed at all). With it not working, I was going through a set of web pages to find a lat/long for an address and then convert that lat/long into a grid square. ![]() That QRZ Gridfinder app hasn’t worked since the latest QRZ.com site redesign back around the end of 2008. Doing it by address is useful for those contacts on QRZ that get pulled into my log that haven’t provided a grid locator in their info. I could enter an address and it would do a great job of finding the grid locator for that address. ![]() One of the most useful was the QRZ Gridfinder application.
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