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Discussing the features of EI8IC's 'Great Circle Mapper' Program.

'GCM v10' Program Features

Overview
'GCM v10' is a unique Great Circle beam-heading map-generator. Not only does it look good, but it has some great features too:

  • Circular Map in 4 different projections, with over 20 Background Maps, Solar Information, Prefixes, Grid Locators, Country and Capital City Names.
     
  • Map Widgets of callsign, clock, solar data, and DX Cluster panels that can be positioned anywhere on the desktop.
     
  • Gray-Line plotting with instant overlay of GrayLine Terminator and Overlay, plus sun/moon rise/set information for any position.
     
  • Sun Position, Moon Position, Sun Track, and Sun Analemma plotted on any Map Projection.
     
  • NCDXF Beacon Plotting, with map display of current beacon transmit status, selectable by Band.
     
  • Map Export with current overlays, in a variety of Image Formats, for use online or in your own programs.
     
  • Range Rings, with either single or multiple plotting, and unique colors and fonts, are useful for visualizing map-distances.
     
  • Line and Point Plotting includes Latitude/Longitude circles, Radial Lines, Grid Locators, Prefixes, Capital Cities.
     
  • Magnetic Variation finds Magnetic Declination for any point on earth, with Dual Compass Rose for Easy Offset-Visualization.
     
  • Collapsible Map Control Pages for a standalone minimum window footprint that can be integrated into a Contester or DXer Desktop Layout.
     
  • Multiple Colors and Fonts fully adjustable and automatically stored for each Background Map.
     
  • Mouse-Position Information includes Latitude/Longitude, Grid Locator, Distance with Unit-Choice, Short and Long-Path Bearings from QTH and Map-Center.
     
  • Additional MouseOver Information: current local time, time-zones, country names, CQ/ITU zone and prefix details.
     
  • Beam Direction Plotting, and Antenna Coverage Plotting for proper visualization of your station antennas.
     
  • Amateur Radio Callsign Parsing, and Amateur Radio Country Lookup for all current Amateur Entities and Regions.
     
  • Comprehensive Help Viewer with Indexing and Search Facilities and nearly 100 pages of useful information.
     

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