[MLB-WIRELESS] World Wifi record

[Peter Berrett]

Good news

I stand corrected

The following page will do the necessary line of sight and/or fresnel 
calculations. It also takes into account the curvature of the earth which 
google earth does not.

We have margim from Mt Buninyong to Mr Dandenong!

http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler-0904.html

cheers Peter


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Langdon, VK3JED" <vk3jed at vkradio.com>
To: "Peter Berrett" <vk3pb at optusnet.com.au>; "David Nuttall" 
<wireless at smithsgully.net>; "MW Wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] World Wifi record


> At 06:35 PM 1/1/2012, Peter Berrett wrote:
>
>>We have a small problem
>>
>>After playing with Google earth for a wile I worked out how to follow 
>>along the line of sight from mountain to mountain
>>
>>Unfortunately the topography is sufficiently high to the west of Melbourne 
>>to block line of sight from Mt Dandenong to Mt Buninyong.
>>
>>I also tried Mt Alexander, near Harcourt, to Mt Dandenong but same 
>>problem.
>
> Yes, experience over many years suggests this is the case.  Mt Alexander 
> is certainly blocked from most of Melbourne, as anyone who's attempted to 
> access the CB and amateur repeaters there can attest to. :)
>
> 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
> http://vkradio.com
>