[UK-CONTEST] RSGB IOTA Contest - Final Scores

[Dave Sergeant]

On 13 Nov 2006 at 19:44, Don Field wrote:

> Clive
> 
> Many populated areas (plus most of the US from what I can see) are covered
> by high-definition photos. Many other areas are at much lower definition.
> It's interesting here - you can see pretty much every house and tree in
> Reading but move 5 miles north to where we are in rural Oxfordshire and it's
> all a bit fuzzy (of course, that could be the RF from my tx!).
> 

Our part of Bracknell is at reasonable resolution and the photos in 
this area were taken in August 2003 on a Sunday morning (the Tesco's 
round the corner from here doesn't open Sundays and its car park is 
totally empty). That weekend there was a scout camp in Windsor Great 
Park and it can be seen on Google complete with the car of one of our 
club members!

Surprisingly you can see the 136kHz loop I had up here as a thin 
diagonal line across my back garden - http://tinyurl.com/yz28bo 
roughly in the centre.

But as Don says resolution varies enormously over the country. When I 
wanted to find the guest house in Bala in North Wales we were 
visiting the other week I found the whole town a total blur on 
Google. But the aerial photos on Multimap came up with the goods and 
were much better.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com