Dick, SPLAT is that good. TV stations are using it to show what the coverage well be when they go "Digital" in Feb. 2009!
I myself do not have the DEM's or the SRTM's for Indianna down loaded... yet. My strong suggestion is that one of the club members out there that is a linux/unix user/operator get involved as the gathering of large areas of digital data from the goverment website goes a lot faster with shell scripts. Have them contact me if they need help, I _think_ I still have the scripts that I used... somewhere... 73 Dave KB3EFS MGS FN24bi On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Dick Repasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Dave, and everyone for replying. It looks like opinion is > unamimous, SPLAT! > > We are in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. The primary digi's in the > area are KB9YVI and WB9TLH. There is also K9IU, but it is looking for a new > location - an ideal use of SPLAT! > > I'm also a little surprised at the response to my request. Briefly, SPLAT! > gives ideal results or theoretical results. My query was about realized > coverage. Is anyone curious about what coverage actually is, or is SPLAT! > so good that there is no need to actually measure coverage? > > Thanks, > > Dick > > > David Aitcheson wrote: > > > Dick, > > > > I can wholeheartedly endorse the us of SPLAT as Alex Carver has > > suggested. > > > > Take a serious look at the SPLAT web page and then get back to us via > > the reflector here with your questions. You are most likely not the only > > one looking for this type of information. > > > > I have SPLAT loaded on my laptop that is running "ubuntu 8.04-LTS" for > > the operating system. I am certain the group can assist you. SPLAT has no > > problem outputing "kml" files to use with Google Earth and or Xastir. > > > > We would need to know where you are and the locations of the digipeaters > > thgat you are wanting to get a coverage map of. > > > > 73 > > Dave > > KB3EFS > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Dick Repasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > > 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] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
