MQK converter

Archive1 · 01-21-11, 06:49 PM

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 · 01-21-11, 10:21 PM

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

Archive1 · 01-21-11, 11:16 PM

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 · 01-22-11, 12:43 AM

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

Archive1 · 01-24-11, 07:27 PM

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

12-02-11, 04:39 AM

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

I always get: Grid not in database message

Captain Nemo · 12-02-11, 04:53 AM

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 · 12-02-11, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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.

12-02-11, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Myxale

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.

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/d...ate=1942-08-10

Myxale · 12-02-11, 11:08 AM

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

Sailor Steve · 12-02-11, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

12-03-11, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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 · 12-03-11, 11:37 AM

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.

12-03-11, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 12-03-11, 12:30 PM

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.

01-21-11, 06:49 PM	#1
Archive1 Commander Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Washington State south of Tacoma Posts: 462 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	MQK converter 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?

01-21-11, 10:21 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	It has nothing to do with SH3 at all. It goes on your desktop, where you just type in what you want. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-22-11, 12:43 AM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Alt+Tab will minimize the game so you can run the converter. Also the Windows key does the same. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-02-11, 04:53 AM	#7
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

12-02-11, 11:08 AM	#10
Myxale Admiral Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: PQ AN 25 Posts: 2,178 Downloads: 70 Uploads: 0	I write them down in my Log, that I try to keep as authentic as possible. __________________ SH3+GWX SH5+WoS Still Sailing....still Deep

01-21-11, 11:16 PM	#3
Archive1 Commander Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Washington State south of Tacoma Posts: 462 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	SSteve: Ah, I guess that means it is not available while in a patrol model. And, therefore, not very useful. Thanks. Will delete. -=A1=-

01-24-11, 07:27 PM	#5
Archive1 Commander Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Washington State south of Tacoma Posts: 462 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Steve: Thanks. I forgot about Alt+Tab. I'll give it a try.

12-02-11, 04:39 AM	#6
PapaKilo Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	How exatly do you get the needed quadrant using a coordinates ? I always get: Grid not in database message

12-03-11, 11:37 AM	#13
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-03-11, 12:30 PM	#15
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo