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Hello
This is my first posting here. I was wondering if there are other then FCC databases (http://www.fcc.gov/mb/databases/cdbs/) about radio stations in the USA. I'm trying to create a web site and graph the radio towers on it. I was also wondering if there is an easy way of calculating the reach of the station - like you can see here http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin...atus=L&hours=U I would appreciate any help thanks. |
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Hash: SHA1 In Rafal Z writes: Hello This is my first posting here. I was wondering if there are other then FCC databases (http://www.fcc.gov/mb/databases/cdbs/) about radio stations in the USA. I'm trying to create a web site and graph the radio towers on it. I was also wondering if there is an easy way of calculating the reach of the station - like you can see here http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin...atus=L&hours=U I would appreciate any help thanks. Bob Carpenter makes useful PC-based applications to visually present the FCC radio and TV databases and display signal contours: http://home.earthlink.net/~lvehorn/ as well as generate KML overlay files that can be viewed on Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/ The applications run in a full-screen DOS window, but should work on most versions of Windows (the author recommends using an x86 DOS emulator with Vista). They can also be updated against the most current FCC databases. - -- Paul W. Schleck http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/ Finger for PGP Public Key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (SunOS) iD8DBQFMdqmf6Pj0az779o4RAtTJAJ9keS05WdeAfzU5szxMR/B+AMZ0twCfaQEi nEuq6GLqbJ5vZ3M3HvFkNhQ= =OOKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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Got Google Earth? If so, enjoy this...
http://fccinfo.com/fccinfo_google_earth.php WARNING: After loading this up your friends, family, and coworkers may not find you for days, as you browse happily... It's addictive On Aug 25, 5:09*pm, Rafal Z wrote: Hello This is my first posting here. I was wondering if there are other then FCC databases (http://www.fcc.gov/mb/databases/cdbs/) about radio stations in the USA. I'm trying to create a web site and graph the radio towers on it. I was also wondering if there is an easy way of calculating the reach of the station - like you can see herehttp://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KFI&service=AM&status=L... I would appreciate any help thanks. |
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Tom Morris KG4CYX wrote:
Got Google Earth? If so, enjoy this... http://fccinfo.com/fccinfo_google_earth.php WARNING: After loading this up your friends, family, and coworkers may not find you for days, as you browse happily... It's addictive Except that it's only the info for Kansas City area stations. |
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* David Kaye wrote, On 9/26/2010 8:03 AM:
Tom Morris wrote: Got Google Earth? If so, enjoy this... http://fccinfo.com/fccinfo_google_earth.php Except that it's only the info for Kansas City area stations. Maybe you didn't play around enough . . it's got everything for the whole country. I spent (entirely too much) time exploring broadcast microwave paths around Northern California-- not to mention Bay Area FM translators and boosters, LPTVs, etc. A recent CPU with plenty of RAM and a graphics card with a good GPU are definitely recommended, but that's largely true for Google Earth anyway. It wants to update every time you move around the terrain, and it can be frustratingly slow to update at times (even on my quad core processor with 4 GB RAM), I think due to the sheer amount of info available, but otherwise I found it interesting and more than potentially useful. Try un-checking everything except the one category you want to examine, and I think you'll have more success with it. JT -- |
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John T wrote:
Maybe you didn't play around enough . . it's got everything for the whole country. I spent (entirely too much) time exploring broadcast microwave paths around Northern California-- not to mention Bay Area FM translators and boosters, LPTVs, etc. Then download on the website was for a 1kb file that included only stations in the Kansas City area. I didn't find any other files anywhere and I looked all over the website. Can you point me to a better page that has the full download? |
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* David Kaye wrote, On 9/26/2010 5:09 PM:
John wrote: Maybe you didn't play around enough . . it's got everything for the whole country. Can you point me to a better page that has the full download? The link provided should have taken you to a page that has a large download icon about 1/3 down the screen . . that's what I used. The page: http://fccinfo.com/fccinfo_google_earth.php Direct KMZ download: http://ge.fccinfo.com/fccinfo.kmz Hope that helps. JT -- |
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* David Kaye wrote, On 9/26/2010 5:09 PM:
John wrote: Maybe you didn't play around enough . . it's got everything for the whole country. Then download on the website was for a 1kb file that included only stations in the Kansas City area. I might also suggest that you zoom in to an area of interest and the overlay should appear. The info in the sidebar changes constantly as you scroll your view around-- this being the source of some slowness, but also providing good information. JT -- |
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Because the station is transmitting on a carrier frequency (the number on your dial) It has nothing to do with volume. Your amplifier (the radio in your car) is what actually takes the carrier signal and amplifies it.
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