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Browse VK-WLOTA List

The 'VK Callbook Mapper' programme includes a list of nearly 200 Australian 'World Lighthouse on the Air' entities, listed by Id number, name, validation, region, latitude, longitude and valid-since date.

For more information about the 'World Lighthouse on the Air' programme and awards, please visit: www.wlota.com  (Link will open in your Browser).

Assuming that you have entered your QTH's latitude and longitude position by clicking 'Help > Options > Mapping > User Details', you can then perform a 'User Spatial Query' on the WLOTA table data by right-clicking any table line and choosing 'User Spatial Query'. What this command does is to order the complete table by distance from your User-location. You can thus discover the WLOTA entities that are the closest to you, and those farthest way. A 'Bearing' column is also added to the table, that shows the short-path bearing from your User-location to the center of that WLOTA entity: a very handy and unique feature when contacting a WLOTA entity mobile station. If you wish, you can order the table by bearing simply by clicking that column's header, to see all of the WLOTA entities that your signal will cross on any particular beam-heading, and those WLOTA entities that will be included for a specified beam pattern width.

Choosing the 'Row Spatial Query' after right-clicking a line in the WLOTA table will sort the table in order of distance from that particular line's point of reference. This can be very useful if you are a roving mobile station, and want to see which WLOTA entities you could activate within a certain range during an expedition.

You can add a marker to the Online and Overlay Maps for any WLOTA entity by right-clicking it in the table and choosing 'Show on Map'. Once the marker is on the map, you can then perform other Spatial Queries based on its center-position by right-clicking the marker.

Although you can choose the individual type of marker used to mark a WLOTA entity on the map by clicking 'Help > Options > POI Markers > Choose WLOTA Marker-Type', the WLOTA markers do not have their own layer over the maps, but rather are added to the collective POI Layer, which also contains markers for IOTA, Shires, SOTA, WWFF, and ARLHS. You can hide or clear this layer by clicking 'Markers > Hide POI Markers' or  'Markers > Clear POI Markers', but the action you perform will also be performed on all other existing POI Markers.