Re: [IRCA] Google Earth markup file for AM BCB

["Ira Elbert New, III" <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all of your hard work. I can't get it to work at home on my MAC so I'll ship it off to work and see if it'll work there on my PC.


Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!

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> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:51:33 -0400
> From: gmagiros@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [IRCA] Google Earth markup file for AM BCB
> 
> I been working recently on trying to put FCC AM broadcast station
> information onto Google Earth.  I think I finally did it.  Hopefully there
> are no more bugs.   If you find any please tell me or any other suggestions,
> for example I recently fixed an error causing the call signs displayed to
> not be current.  It took a while to get everything right since the FCC CDBS
> database is a bit of a pain to understand and the FCC regulations are a
> tough read - ie. what is the difference between theoretical, standard,
> augmented?  Why RMS? Or is 300 mV/m/km really the field strength for a
> quarter wave monopole?  I'm still not sure about the last one.
> 
> That said, I believe you will like what I put together.  I tried to make
> it's list view in Google Earth useful for dxers by putting each broadcast
> station on the same frequency into the same folder.  The result is a huge
> file however: 76 MB.  The KMZ file includes a place mark and description in
> Google Earth for every AM station from the FCC's CDBS database, and whether
> it is in daytime or nighttime or critical hour operation, for every hour of
> the day of each month: 24 * 12 folders.  Note, checking an entire folder for
> say 00 UTC on January will cause Google Earth to display about 5000 place
> marks, causing it to freeze for about a minute.
> 
> Download from here:
> 
> http://rapidshare.com/files/153634806/ambcb.kmz.html
> 
> George
> KC2SCI
> 646-245-5704
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