On Monday, Jan 26, 2004, at 18:48 America/Denver, Tim Shephard wrote: > Anyone know of a shareware package to give you a coverage map when > you > enter the radio and terrain data?
I've used one called Radio Mobile, written by a German Ham and available for free -- in exchange for some "sweat equity" in getting the terrain data downloaded and struggling through getting it set up to use that data at first. http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html Haven't had a need to fire it up for a year or so... it's probably gotten better. Downloading all the terrain data needed definitely requires a broadband Internet connection. It's pretty decent software for free. Terrain data is available from the USGS for the US, and other areas of the world I don't know about. Otherwise, most of the large radio manufacturers sell (very expensive) software to do terrain/coverage analysis -- usually the big packages do have more features and better analysis tools, from what I've heard. (I've never used them.) RM works well for a generic "Where will this repeater site cover well/poorly?"... etc. Have fun, Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - WY0X Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
