Hi Folks,

I started to work on this utility again (as I've been fairly active on
6 meters lately, picking up new grids since moving to CO):

  Create VUCC Map from DX4WIN Award Listing
  http://dx4win.ad1c.us/vucc.htm

I believe John W9RPM may have asked about this in the not-too-distant
past.  John has worked all 488 continental US grid squares and I think
is one QSL away from completing the Fred Fish Memorial Award
(http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Fred%20Fish.pdf).

I made some changes today so the utility works with DX4WIN8 (DX4WIN7
still works).  The utility also now treats submitted/approved credits
as confirmed.  I'm also going to improve the title bar so you know
what fields are being displayed.  Including the full name in each grid
square of the output prevents it from fitting on a single page.

Unfortunately, it's still a command-line program, that I'll release
sometime this weekend.

I'll create a Windows interface in the next release (after this one,
no timetable).  With the Windows interface, there will be a button so
you can see the output immediately in your web browser of choice (then
print it).

Here are some ideas I've come up with, though I don't know how to
implement some of them:

1.  Overlay the grid data on top of a real map (don't know how to do this)
2.  Print the field names in the background of each field (don't know how yet)
3.  Rotate the page as landscape, so instead of 3x4 it's 4x3 (this
means text has to rotate also, which may not be supported in HTML)
4.  Color-code the field backgrounds (maybe add a legend).  Is there
any value in this?
5.  Larger output, i.e. print more fields on a 11x17 printer (everyone
has one of these, right)?

Does anyone else have other ideas that I don't have time to work on?  :-)

73 - Jim AD1C

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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