[NLRS] 10GHz site list

[Doug Reed]

At 12:09 AM 8/13/2002 -0500, "John P. Toscano" <tosca005@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>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

Everyone should check out John's preliminary web site for 10 GHz sites. He
has added the lat/lon info everyone threw out so most of the sites are
listed. The elevation profile option doesn't work but I question if we
really care what the profile is as long as it works. 

>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 is what I want. I want a table of starting and ending points similar
to the mileage charts on a highway map. If I'm at Monticello, I find the
Monticello column and go down the chart to find bearing and distance to all
the other sites. I'd like to have the magnetic declination on the page
somewhere too. 

The chart could be done as one huge chart with all combinations or it could
be done as one chart per location. The per location chart would have more
room for incidentals like GPS bearing, Magnetic bearing, KM distance, path
comments, etc. The per location chart would also make it easier to find the
info needed and there would be fewer errors due to jumping the proper column. 

>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.
>73 de KB0ZEV

Thank you for all the work John. As far as the maps are concerned, rather
than capturing the maps as JPG from Topo USA, I'd suggest just adding a
link for each site to www.mapquest.com or www.mapblast.com. I haven't
investigated the details of linking to these sites but I've often found
what I'm looking for and then captured the link to include in email or on a
web page. I think you'd find that the format of the URL can be decoded
fairly easily and then you just edit the text to make each new link. And
the maps don't take up storage on the NLRS site. 

The other option to add would be user comments and verbal driving
directions to each site. Something else that I was doing last year was to
take a picture of the horizon from each site, hopefully including the
equipment setup, and then add arrows and text labels to the picture to show
where on the horizon to aim for other sites. This sounded like an excellent
way to show people where to park, what the site looks like, and where to
aim...... But it is work as well and the accuracy of the arrows tends to
depend on my memory of terrain bumps and trees.......

73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.