Not quite the implementation you're talking about but what about using Splat (http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html)? It can generate a line-of-sight coverage map for you very easily. You could start with the base station, find the gaps in coverage, then deploy your fill-in digipeaters in those gaps.
Splat uses data from a Space Shuttle topography mission to get terrain data for the predictions. It'll also use information about the soil conditions to adjust propagation. --- On Sun, 5/11/08, Dick Repasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dick Repasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Xastir] digipeater coverage plots > To: "Users Xastir" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 10:41 AM > I'm interested in plotting digipeater coverage, and this > message can be > viewed as a feature request or a request to know where it > has been > implemented. > > Our ARES and RACES groups often support bicycle rides, > runs, and relay > races that take us out into the county far from digipeaters > and often > into hilly terrain. To fill gaps in coverage we deploy > fill-in > digipeaters. If we could plot coverage of digipeaters, we > could more > easily judge our fill-in digi's and possibly move them > to better locations. > > Coverage could be constructed from incoming packets. The > first digi on > the packet path is the first digipeater to pick up the > packet, and the > packet location provides the coordinates of a place that is > covered by > the digipeater. > > Coverage could be plotted using convex polygons that > enclose the set of > pick-up points for each digipeater. Polygons for different > digi's could > be colored differently. And, points of pick-up locations > could be > plotted using the same color as the polygon, jittered > slightly to make > visible instances in which two digi's pick up the same > packet. Ideally, > locations would be stored over some period of time, > rather than > working with only the most recent station reports. > > Does anyone know where this idea has been implemented? Is > the xastir > crew interested in implementing it? > > Thanks, > > Dick Repasky > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
