"Sid Schweiger" wrote in message
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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).

Oh, my! I just made the connection. I've got a copy of Bob's software, discovered
quite by accident somewhere, and it's given me hours of fascination. The only reason
I suggested radio-locator is because it integrates the pattern with a map, and I
honestly didn't think the inquirer had much need for anything more than a
representation.

But, come on, back at'cha...you know the reason why the disclaimer "for entertainment
purposes only" is there is because there's no desire on the part of the website to
become embroiled in some twit's lawsuit when it's used as a source for a frequency
search. At the same time, I don't think that the radiation pattern or inverse-km is
what's being sought, here, but an estimate of what this station's reasonable coverage
area is. In that regard, 2 mV/m or 4 mV/m doesn't really make a whole lot of
difference....especially with the crud that's all over the AM band these days.
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