[TowerTalk] grabbing terrain data for HFTA

[Pete Smith]

Charlie, this sounds like an excellent solution - potentially much less 
involved than the old way of using MicroDem and the USGS website.  If 
you can provide a few more details, I'll be glad to write it up, and I'd 
bet that N6BV and the ARRL will be interested in making it available on 
the ARRL web-site.  Dean and I wrote most of the old instructions you'll 
find, but it always was a PITA because USGS kept changing their web-site.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 8/16/2011 9:12 PM, Charlie Carroll wrote:
> Door's abt to close, so have to be brief.  Of late, I have taken to semi-automatically extracting terrain data from Google Earth.  I dump this info into an Excel spreadsheet for the number crunching.  Pretty painless to do something like ten foot intervals out to 10k feet.
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> 73 charlie, k1xx
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> Grant Saviers<grants2 at pacbell.net>  wrote:
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>> Can some one share a pointer for up to date instructions for grabbing
>> the terrain data from the web for HFTA?  Every instruction I've found is
>> hopelessly out of sync with the current terrain data web site.
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>> Grant KZ1W
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