At 07:31 PM 1/26/04 -0700, you wrote:
>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 I have a link to RM off of www.repeater-builder.com 's Antenna Systems Information page at http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/ant-sys-index.html ... It's the last entry in the first section of links. I"d be happy to add a "Getting Started with Radio Mobile" web page link to the section if anybody wants to email me a summary of their notes on what it took to get it working. Mike WA6ILQ 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/
