![]() ![]() In April 1980 a meeting of European VHF managers was held in Maidenhead near London, UK and later in 1982 the new “Maidenhead Locator System” as we know it today, was adopted by IARU Region 1 as the new locator system starting January 1, 1985. The Maidenhead Locator System permits to represent a position on the Earth, with just a Six-Digits code composed by letters and numbers, like JF96EB. The Locator system is based on three elements, Fields, Squares and Sub-Squares, having different sizes, and a rectangular shape (not properly a square) where each element is represented by a pair of digits. ![]() The World is first divided into (18 * 18) 324 very large areas named Fields.Each Square is divided into 576 Sub-Squares.Here below you can find two interesting Maidenhead locator maps in PDF file that can be easily scaled, zoomed and printed even in large format. ![]()
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