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What if you print out the map and hang it on the wall?

As children, many of us had huge wall maps hanging on our walls, carefully hung on pushpins. Many hours were spent painstakingly studying them. New countries and cities appeared before my eyes as if by magic. Some memorized the capitals of states, some calculated distances, and some simply looked for their hometown, trying to learn more about the world around them. Now they are no less popular, and buying wall maps is not difficult.

Whether you're going on vacation or want to find a place you saw on the news, you just have to walk up to the wall and find it. Returning from vacation, you can trace the entire path taken with undisguised pleasure by running your finger along the surface. And even carefully mark the winding route with a pencil, so that when you accidentally glance at the wall map, unforgettable moments of relaxation emerge in your memory. Yes and modern technologies allow you to make maps much more colorful and detailed.

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Today's wall maps are no match for their dull and often torn ancestors. Colorfulness, clarity of design, extraordinary detail will make them a real treasure of your collection. Guests who come will definitely linger with her, and then they will ask with envy where you bought such a lovely thing.

To be honest, from an aesthetic point of view, kats win competitions with many design solutions. No matter how passionately they prove to you that such a painting or vase will look good, I assure you that there is nothing more mysterious and interesting than a wall map.

Many things change in life. There are ups and downs, but that stability, symbolized by the wall map, always remains somewhere deep in the soul. All you have to do is hang a map on the wall once and a whole world will appear in your house, not just an imaginary one, but a real one. Our world, where today there is an incredibly vast Russia, Africa drowning in heat, Europe dripping with politics, and the romantic Caribbean islands. You never know there are many beautiful places on earth that can easily fit on your wall.

Many centuries have passed since people began to mark symbols on objects that could tell others about their location. The simplest landmarks are trees, paths, rivers; at that time everything was plotted on primitive maps. Today it is already a problem to find your city on a regular globe if its population is less than five hundred thousand people. Maps created by our ancestors are in museums and tell about the history of the development of cartography. But ancient drawings can tell a lot interesting facts and provide an opportunity to unravel the mysteries of the past.

I doubt that it is now possible to find in a modern traveler a sample of a handwritten map with markings applied that would identify the population of the country or the people living there. When creating maps today, preference is given to the accuracy and clarity of state boundaries, while losing aesthetics.

But along with the fact that ancient maps are fictitious and inconvenient to use, they are a work of art. Many artists around the world are amazed and inspired by ancient maps and study them with great pleasure and admiration. In our computerized and Internet era, you can find a wide variety of maps. It's very convenient and fast. Having collected cartographic material for many years, today we can provide you with more than two hundred maps; they can be downloaded or printed directly from the site in excellent quality and high resolution. Anyone can do this, be it a local historian, a historian, a treasure hunter or just a curious person.

Most people use maps for targeted searches for antiques from our ancestors. Those who believe in the secrets of treasures and treasures can use ancient maps, and maybe luck will smile on them. But we must not forget that an antique map can be a wonderful decoration in your home. Your guests will certainly be surprised and captivated by such a wall design, thanks to which you can learn a lot about your region and the whole world.

You can also make a gift and associate it with an antique map. For example, a China lover can be given an ancient Chinese map that was copied from a stone column in 1137. The birthday boy will certainly be delighted and will remember the gift for a long time. On our website you will find all the maps you are interested in. Get a lot of pleasure from studying them and experience a lot of positive emotions.

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An amateur radio card is a source of pride for its lucky owners, especially if they managed to purchase a high-quality printing product. A photograph of a radio amateur against the background of such a card is an indispensable attribute of many QSL cards. However, the degree of usefulness and ease of use when practical work on air even the most beautiful and detailed paper map are not indisputable, therefore, for real radio amateurs, an atlas has always been preferable, which is much more convenient to use than a map.

However, no matter how good printing atlases are, the emergence of interactive computer programs selling maps and atlases in electronic form, provides the user with a qualitatively new service. To verify the validity of what has been said, you do not need to go far and search for such a program - just visit the DX Atlas website (), download the dxatlas zip file, unzip it and install the program on a computer running Windows. The program is installed very simply and quickly. It can be used free of charge for 30 days, and to continue working after this period you need to register (the author of the program sends the registration key by E-mail).

At the end of the installation process, a shortcut for this program appears on the desktop; by clicking on it, the user is taken to the working window. To talk about the interface and working with the main functions of the DX Atlas program. By placing the mouse cursor at any point on the map of the earth's surface, for this point in the program status bar located at the very bottom of the working screen, the following data is displayed - geographic coordinates, QTH locator square, direction angle and distance to this point from the user's QTH ( two directions and, accordingly, two distances are indicated - along the short and long paths of radio wave propagation) and the daylight interval indicating the time of sunrise and sunset. Of course, for the correct display of this data, preliminary installation of the user’s QTH parameters is required, which is also very simple - you can enter or geographic coordinates, or OTN locator, or name settlement(if it is included in the program database).

Separately, it is necessary to say about the user interface, the elaboration of which deserves the kindest words. The program's working screen looks very attractive and is not overloaded with data, and the clock (their display can be turned off), nicely perched in the upper right corner of the screen, displays the time of sunrise and sunset and the current local time (if it is set as the system time on the computer) In addition, The clock can be switched to display time in UTC.

The function of displaying day and night zones and the “twilight line” (terminator line), which is so important for shortwave operators, has not been forgotten - both for the current moment in time and for “playing” the change of days of weeks and months forward or backward, which is very useful for planning or analysis conducted QSOs. To represent the surface of the globe on the screen plane, the user can select a conformal or azimuthal projection, which, in turn, can be overlaid with grids for CQ or ITU zones, QTH locator squares or geographic meridians and parallels.

For shortwave and ultrashortwave operators, the information capabilities of the DX Atlas program are simply unique. By user choice (menu item Map - Labels), either prefixes or city names or island names can be displayed on the map. All text labels have a tooltip with additional information: For cities, country, province, prefix and population information is provided; for islands, country prefix and ISO code are provided. Using the zoom function (it is very convenient to use a computer mouse with a scroll wheel, which can be rotated to achieve the required image scale), you can select a certain geographical area on the working screen, for which a more detailed distribution of prefixes (cities, islands) will be given. By holding down the left mouse button, you can freely move the image in any direction. Besides,
A powerful tool when searching for the required prefix is ​​the Prefixes button, when activated, a list of countries and territories in alphabetical order appears in the form of a hierarchical structure on the left side of the working screen. Double-clicking the left mouse button on the name of a country (territory) selects it on the map, and right-clicking displays a list of basic information about this country or its region (Fig. 3). The Cities and Islands buttons function similarly, i.e. you can instantly find the required city or island and get brief information about them, if, of course, information about these geographical objects is entered into the program database. Disabling the display of a map of the earth's surface (menu item Map - None) switches the information window to a multi-column display mode of the detailed contents of the tables index (Fig. 4). No less useful for a radio amateur may be the dialogue function for analyzing the call sign of an amateur radio station (Tools - Resolve callsign). After entering the call sign, the program reports the information encoded in it - territory, province, license class, affiliation (collective/individual/memorial station), etc.

Thanks to elements of interactivity and a large database, the DX Atlas program can be useful for schoolchildren in studying geography, making learning more visual and fun. In addition, introducing a child to the DX Atlas program is perhaps introducing him to fascinating world travel on air. Tooltips also appear when hovering over a CQ or ITU zone number, informing the user about the countries/territories located in a particular zone.

It is impossible not to mention one more very attractive feature of the DX Atlas program:
- the ability to save the visible part of the working screen image as a separate graphic file. The resulting file can then be printed on a full-color printer. For example, in this way you can make an azimuth map for a homemade rotary antenna device. It is necessary to note the flexible approach of the author of this wonderful program, Alexander Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA (ve3nea@dxatlas com)
- bank or postal transfer, credit cards, etc.

The database of prefixes for cities and islands is being updated, and the latest data - files prefix 1st, city 1st and island 1st - can be downloaded from the program developer’s website

The RadioExpert online store offers you to buy an amateur radio map of the world today at a competitive price! Such an acquisition can be considered a permanent part of an amateur radio station. Optimal price and high-quality printing are the main criteria that shape the choice and demand for the products presented on the store’s pages.

Main product characteristics

The amateur radio map of the world is selected by potentially interested buyers based on the level of detail, accuracy of names, print quality, format and other parameters. Traditionally it indicates:

• time zones;
• list of distribution of prefix blocks;
• CQ (WAZ) zones and so on.

An amateur radio map of the world in high image quality is a full-size model that can be ordered on the RadioExpert online store website. Products with azimuth significantly help work on the air if the radio amateur’s antenna is mounted on a rotating device, which makes it possible to rotate it 360 degrees and orient the maximum radiation pattern towards the correspondent. Also, if you buy an amateur radio map of the world, it will not be difficult to determine the direction of the maximum radiation pattern of an already installed device and estimate its optimal location in advance.
You can purchase a map of Europe at an affordable price. Sales and delivery are carried out in all cities and regions of Russia, as well as in the CIS countries. The price list contains prices for all products that are in stock. Just select the item you are interested in and order it on the website. The cost is low and practical use from the acquisition is obvious.

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