[Laser] Ramsey Kit Modes

[Glenn Thomas]

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?
>