Re: [amsat-bb] Determining horizon profile for QTH

["Michael R. Owen" <mowen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Radio Mobil, by  VE2DBE is an amazing piece of software.  It can 
generate views of your horizon in several projections.  Get it (free) 
from http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html

W9IP

Freeman P. Pascal IV wrote:

>I notice one of the options that Nova gives is the ability to provide a
>profile for the horizon surrounding an observer.  This file is a list of
>elevations for every 20deg of azimuth.  Since I live in the east
>mountains of Albuquerque NM this would be handy.
>
>The only method I can come up with for generating this data is to take a
>compass and a protractor up to the roof and survey the horizon.
>
>Does anyone know if any tools online or off the net that can be used to
>digitally survey topo data for a lat/long/alt coordinate and generate
>this data?
>
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>-Freeman, N5FPP
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