Re: [TowerTalk] Trees, Mountains, 15 degrees...

[Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>]

At 12:11 AM 1/25/2005, Jim Lux wrote:
> The documentation says it handles uneven spacing. It assumes flat plates,
> and does a Geometric Theory of Diffraction calculation, so it should work.
> There's probably an optimum spacing of points at areas of high rate of
> change of slope.  Perhaps an email to Dean Straw might be in order?

I know Dean scans the Towertalk digest periodically, but he is definitely 
the guy to ask.

For whatever it's worth, you can use Microdem to generate terrain profiles 
of any point spacing you want, though of course you would have to merge and 
edit manually and limit the total number of points.

73, Pete


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