MQK converter

[Archive1]

Would like to use the MQK converter with GWX to convert grid notation to lat/long but there is no installation info with the MQK download. Does it drop into the SH3 main file (where /data, /MODS, /SH3 exec files etc reside) or go somewhere else via JSGME?

[Sailor Steve]

It has nothing to do with SH3 at all. It goes on your desktop, where you just type in what you want.

[Archive1]

SSteve:
Ah, I guess that means it is not available while in a patrol model. And, therefore, not very useful.
Thanks. Will delete.
-=A1=-

[Sailor Steve]

Alt+Tab will minimize the game so you can run the converter. Also the Windows key does the same.

[Archive1]

Steve:
Thanks. I forgot about Alt+Tab. I'll give it a try.

[PapaKilo]

How exatly do you get the needed quadrant using a coordinates ?

I always get: Grid not in database message :shifty:

[Captain Nemo]

I've just downloaded this and as far as I can tell it only converts Kriegsmarine grids to longitude and latitude not the other way round.

Nemo

[Myxale]

Alt+Tab will minimize the game so you can run the converter. Also the Windows key does the same.

That's the way it's done.
I Alt-Tab' to write my Log in Words and used the Converter to get the lat/long numbers.
Then Alt-Tab back to keep sailing. Cool thing is, that SH3 keeps running in the Background.:arrgh!:

[PapaKilo]

That's the way it's done.
I Alt-Tab' to write my Log in Words and used the Converter to get the lat/long numbers.
Then Alt-Tab back to keep sailing. Cool thing is, that SH3 keeps running in the Background.:arrgh!:

:hmmm: And what do you do with those lat/long numbers ?

The sad part for me this tool doesn't do coordinates to KM grids.

If it could do that, I would of had more fun plotting course as real Captains did here: http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/details.php?boat=598&date=1942-08-10

[Myxale]

I write them down in my Log, that I try to keep as authentic as possible.

[Sailor Steve]

I've just downloaded this and as far as I can tell it only converts Kriegsmarine grids to longitude and latitude not the other way round.
And that's exactly what you need to record where you are. Why would want to convert the other way?

[PapaKilo]

And that's exactly what you need to record where you are. Why would want to convert the other way?

Because when I have positions in coordinates, I cannot accuratly mark the location of it in SH3 map, where we see only KM Grids.. Thats why I need the other way converter. Unless there is another way around.

[Sailor Steve]

What positions and coordinates? The ones that appear in radio transmissions? Those are historical reports, and for immersion only. There's nothing there in the game.

[PapaKilo]

What positions and coordinates? The ones that appear in radio transmissions? Those are historical reports, and for immersion only. There's nothing there in the game.

:) If you must know, I'll explain. I use a random number generator that is picking up the U-number for me, then I try to recreate patrol history in correct date and position. I use a http://uboat.net/ to help me get the daily position data of any U-boat that went on patrol during the war. However, those daily coordinates are given in lat/long format, which I simply find too difficult to locate in SH3 nav-map. That's why I wish there was a coordinates to KM grid converter.
This has nothing to do with radio reports. It's my personal freakin career immersion that matters :)

[Sailor Steve]

Ah. Thanks for the explanation. That's something I never would have thought of, hence my incorrect guess. In your case it is too bad the converters don't work that way.

I do have a rather large collection of digital KM maps, and most of them have rough Lat/Long coordinates on the sides. Almost certainly not as accurate as the calculator, but I'd be glad to send them to you anyway.

[s3bpilot]

Hello all, there is a new conversion program http://grid.nylle.de/ which will convert all grid squares to latitude/longitude and also the reverse. The output includes the type of square (regular or irregular), corner coordinates of the square and data on the height and width, and a Google Earth Map of the square. The tool includes a discussion of the Kriegsmarine grid system and the considerations that went into the development of the program. One interesting insight is that U-boat navigators did not convert mathematically, they only used charts.

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

We've had similar converters before, but this one seems to be a little better than that. Thanks for the link.