Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Jul 31 04:41 -0500]: >> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bill Powell wrote: >>> Looking for experience and advice in using SPLAT or RM to "reverse >>> plot" a repeater. >>> >>> What I'd like to do is identify holes in the current coverage and run >>> a plot with SPLAT or RM with the holes as the center point to identify >>> potential repeater sites. Do I use mobile parameters (antenna height) >>> at the hole or do I use an estimated height of 100' assuming that I'll >>> have a 100' tower at the new site? Restated - how do I insure that >>> reciprocal results are reliable? >> You're gonna need a lot of computing power. >> >> A LOT of computing power. > > As compared to? I routinely run SPLAT! coverage plots on my trusty > 1.333 GHz Pentium III based T23 laptop. Yes, it may take a couple of > minutes to chew through some of the more demanding plots. For SPLAT! > purposes, enough computing power is available on the used market for > even the most frugal ham. > > Even in the case of SPLAT!, memory is more important than CPU speed. I > have 768 MiB in the laptop and a full GiB wouldn't hurt, but it really > isn't worth tossing a 256 MiB chip for a 512 MiB one. Opening the > PPM files generated by GNU Plot in the Gimp is no problem for my T23 > either. I do this work on a Slackware partition which is quite a bit > leaner than my Debian partition which I have set up for as a rich > desktop. > > 73, de Nate >>
Oh, duh, missed your OS...;cP -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
