Yes, making use of HFTA can still be a PITA, but the development is still in
relative infancy. Remember when Jim Lawson / W2PV did his early yagi
analysis work on a one off basis on big GE computers, based heavily on
Maxwell's theories, and amazed us all. Better days did come and will come
but in the meantime at least HFTA is now available.
Gene / W2LU
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Where to get HFTA Software
> On 3/4/12 9:12 AM, Mark Robinson wrote:
>> I said or meant to say that the HFTA program is a good idea (in fact I
>> think that it is a great idea) but extracting the data to use the HFTA is
>> difficult to do and is a half baked process.
>
> Yes, yes indeed.. and the fact that the source of the raw terrain data
> keeps changing the interface doesn't make it any easier. Just give me a
> simple backend like FTP with a decent naming convention for the tiles.
>
> But no.. we want fancy web point and click interfaces where you can draw
> boxes and return customized grids and stuff.
>
> This is why companies can actually stay in business solving that problem
> for people.
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