I took a class at Arkansas Tech that concentrated on GIS. We used ArcGIS software (among others). At the end of the class we had to come up with a project to show how to integrate GIS software with other software.
So I decided to map every Ham Radio Operator in Arkansas. This turned
out to be a somewhat large project (well over 10,000 records) however I was able
to complete it in a reasonable period of time. There were a few records
(approx 60) that I had to reject because they did not have an address that could
be geo-coded.
The Presentation below shows the outputs of
every ham radio operator in Arkansas as well as a printout showing all known
repeaters in Arkansas.
I pulled data from the following sources.
| BatchGeocode.com | FCC.gov | |
| This allowed me to get the names and addresses of every ham radio operator in Arkansas | This site allowed me to encode the addresses in order to get GPS Coordinates for each address. | I pulled a lot of data from FCC.gov, This site also had links which enabled me to format all of the data into 1 useable format |
Fun Facts:
At the time this project was completed there were approx 9500 registered ham radio
operators in Arkansas.