Importing a basemap shapefile or two from Natural Earth is pretty easy and gets you a world map in the standard WGS84 projection (here I have a coastline layer and a 10° graticule layer): So now I can get all of my contacts data input to QGIS from HRD Logbook without too much fuss…Ĭreating a Great Circle (Azimuthal Equidistant) Map Now save the modified KML file and this should import nicely into QGIS: Now back the the menu bar, Search, Bookmark -> Remove Bookmarked Lines. This will bookmark the lines that are to be removed. Now do a Mark All for the terms “folder” and “All”. Open up the KML file and go Search, Find… open the Mark tab and check the Bookmark line box. Notepad++ is a good tool for this kind of work. The unmodified KML file doesn’t appear to import correctly into QGIS (the folder structure that is generated by HRD Logbook’s export seems to mask the contents) but the individual points and lines can be moved to a single new folder in Google Earth (without their individual folders) and this will save as a KML file that does import nicely into QGIS:Ī slightly hacky way of making the HRD0Logbook output KML file readable by QGIS is to use a text-based ‘find and delete lines’ routine to remove the folder structure which seems to be the problem.
However now that I have some far reaching contacts, Google Earth no longer presents a full view of radio coverage: For a while now I’ve been enjoying the ability to export ham radio logging data from Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook direct to Google Earth for visualisation of my contacts.