[Laser] Ramsey Kit Modes

[Les Rayburn]

Glenn,

I understand a lot more clearly now, thank you. I wonder if any of the 
Microwave guys have already identified suitable locations for such attempts? 
I can't be the first guy to try to pull this off over a weekend?

73,


Les Rayburn, director
High Noon Film
100 Centerview Drive Suite 111
Birmingham, AL 35216-3748
205.824.8930
205.824.8960 fax
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From: "Glenn Thomas" <glennt at charter.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:25 PM
To: <laser at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Laser] Ramsey Kit Modes

> Les -
>
> Consider for a moment, what your situation would be if you sat down
> in the center of a mid to high latitude grid square. These are close
> to being 60 miles x 60 miles in size. Thus, after you've worked your
> own square, you have an additional four grid squares to the north,
> south, east and west that are only 30 miles away, for a total of
> five. You also have a additional four squares, NW, NE, SE and SW that
> are within 43 miles. Thus you have, in addition to the square you are
> in, a total of eight squares to choose from. Depending on the
> topography, one of the more distant (ie. 43 miles) squares might fill
> in for a closer square that has a poor path.
>
> Likewise, if you choose a more northerly square, it will be smaller,
> perhaps significantly smaller, that 30 miles in the east-west
> direction. The extreme case of this, of coarse (sic), is at the north
> pole (say hello to Santa!) where you will have a total of 180 grid
> squares to choose from in the space of a few feet. In fact, it might
> be a challenge to determine exactly which of these 180 squares you
> are physically in!
>
> 73 de Glenn wb6w
>
>
> At 12:17 AM 1/31/2009, Les Rayburn wrote:
>>Jim,
>>
>>Hmmm...I hadn't considered that. Can you explain where the best
>>location (in terms of distance alone) in a given grid square might
>>be to work five grids? In the center?
>>
>
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