[Xastir] digipeater coverage plots

[David Aitcheson]

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 <dick.repasky at gmail.com>
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 <dick.repasky at gmail.com<mailto:
> > dick.repasky at gmail.com>> 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
> >
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