[VHFcontesting] Good places for VHF Contesting?

[Floyd Rodgers]

kb8u vhf wrote:
> You could use geographic information system software and:
> 1. Load in 3-D topographical information for the whole region
> 2. Load in the location of all known stations and what ERP and antenna height they have.
> 3. From each point in #1:
>   Compute the path loss from that point to each station in #2
>   If the path loss is low enough, add it to a "theoretical score" for that point
> 4. the point with the highest "theoretical score" is "the best".
>
> Step 3 may take "a very, very long time" so you would probably need to minimize the number of locations checked by just choosing the top 100,000 highest points in the region.
> It also ignores practical concerns like accessibility or ownership so if that is a concern then you could just load in places you could actually operate from.
>
> It also ignores variables like known good tropo paths and man-made noise.  That is much harder to quantify so "the best" should be left in quotes!  Of course #2 is also going to be only an approximation, too.
>
> Food for thought. 
>
> 73,  Russ  KB8U
>
>   
>> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 03:55:19 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: "Renner, PY7RP" <py7rp at yahoo.com.br>
>> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Good places for VHF Contesting?
>> To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
>> Message-ID: <640713.23524.qm at web33202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> I am making a study about good places for VHF Contesting.
>> I wanna prove that there is a good place, the optimum place
>> to setup a station and this place has the biggest probability
>> of getting a good high score instead of others.
>>
>> The study of case is being made on the Brazilian VHF Contest
>> called "CB144". The score formula is based on the sum of
>> all distances between contacted grids, multiplied by the number
>> of contacted stations.
>>
>> Has anyone ever saw any study like that?
>>
>> 73 Renner
>> PY7RP
>>
>>     
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Sounds like a job for radio mobile from Roger Coudé VE2DBE
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