<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >I am in Lake City surrounded by hills. Is there a map of stations I can access? <br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us> </div><div>Date:05/26/2016 9:25 AM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr@hamwan.org> </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Volunteers for Capitol Peak on May 28th?
(Saturday) </div><div><br></div>On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Todd Lilleness <liltodd65@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> My name is Todd Lilleness,KG7VRV. I am interested in equipment I need to<br>> participate with HamWAN. What is the range of this equipment? I in Lake<br>> City,Seattle. Thank you for your help.<br><br>Range isn't really the right question to ask. The biggest limiting<br>factor is line of sight. Anything solid will block the signal, so for<br>the most part HamWAN only works when you can see the tower/mountain<br>it's on.<br><br>The coverage map here: https://hamwan.org/t/Coverage+Map shows areas<br>in red that are calculated to have line-of-sight to a HamWAN site from<br>an antenna located 30 ft above ground (typical 2-story building plus<br>mast height). Zoom in on Lake City to see what you might get. I can<br>help you with more detailed analysis if it looks promising.<br><br>Once you have line of sight, range is 100 km or so.<br><br>Tom KD7LXL<br>_______________________________________________<br>PSDR mailing list<br>PSDR@hamwan.org<br>http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br></body>