All,
OK, I finally found the time to model the latitudes/longitudes of the locations I wanted to use as theoretical node locations. The map display shows the area we would cover, and its saturation, based on use of the locations to the right of each map. The first map is with those locations at 3 meters elevation. The second map adds the locations around the loop that I posted pictures about and their simulation was run at 10 meters elevation. As you can see, we would have saturation coverage of all, or almost all, of Lamar County with 21 nodes. My initial estimate was 25-30 would generally get the entire Red River Valley area of operations and I think this modeling validates that. The farthest yellow spots, northwest and northeast, are the Beall’s and Cliff Leath (KI5OPP), respectively.
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Phillip Beall (W5EBC)
