[NLRS] 10GHz contest planning

[John P. Toscano]

Doug Reed wrote:

> Has anyone started making a list of locations, grid square, lat/lon, and
> other grids worked? Many of us don't have a GPS in the car yet but having
> the coordinates would at least let us generate maps and directions. I
> challenge everyone to at least WRITE DOWN the lat/lon of each location you
> use so we can make such a list.
> 
> I guess I'd go as far as to create a web page from the info you send me.
> Making a HTML table for this isn't too tough. When it's together it can be
> added to or linked into the NLRS web page if desired. I guess what I need
> is the desired name for each location, the lat/lon, and list of grids
> workable from there. Road directions or landmarks could be a separate item
> linked to each entry.

I definitely second the notion.  This is what I have developed along
those lines so far.  The list of sites is culled from Gary's recent
posting of his plans for the weekend.  I doubt that I have all the
sites listed, and obviously I don't have most of their locations yet.

    http://www.nlrs.org/10GHz_and_Up/10GHz_Sites.htm

The option at the bottom of the page for displaying a terrain profile
is not well thought-out at this point.  The user interface is simple,
as shown.  The problem is that to actually implement it, I would have
to prepare 306 different terrain profiles (18 starting points times
17 ending points), and that's way too much work for me to finish any
time soon.

A more reasonable option might be to have a table of starting and
ending points (same list as used to make the main table at the
top), and inside the table would be the bearing and distance info.
That would be a lot of calculations, but I could let Excel do almost
all the work for me.  Another possibility is to use the user interface
shown, but instead of generating terrain profiles, it would launch a
web page written in PHP that calculates the bearing and distance on
the fly for any two points.  That appeals to me, since I want to
learn some PHP programming, but it also means that I am further
from being able to do that right away.

Anyway, getting a table of locations and linking them to maps and
possibly to other information is a good one, and I would love to
fill in the table at the top of the page, even if nothing else
gets done soon.

I am free for the weekend, but would need to borrow the radio gear
from someone.

73 de KB0ZEV