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Old October 4th 04, 07:06 AM
Sid Schweiger
 
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www.radiolocator.com

Come on, Bob. You should know better than that. Radio-locator.com's maps are
clearly labeled "This image is intended solely for entertainment purposes," and
quite frankly belong in the funny papers, since they bear no resemblance
whatsoever to either the FCC-approved directional pattern or any sort of
real-world coverage (even though the program's coder claims they're drawn using
FCC data).

R.J. Carpenter's AMSTNS and TVFMSTNS programs are the real McCoy, since they
plot the patterns directly from the FCC data, and they're the only programs I
know of with such information that are updated periodically. Even though
they're DOS programs, they run just fine on the versions of Windows that only
have DOS emulators (i.e., NT, 2000 and XP).