I’ve been going round in circles trying to make a 1TB USB hard disk work with a Linux machine here and so whilst letting the symptoms ferment in my mind I thought I’d clean up the chaser location maps I’ve drawn.
The mapping software runs on a different server to the one that supports the SOTA database. So first requirement was a sync program that compares the state of the SOTA database to my private “playing about” database and pulls across the new changes. That works wonderfully and I’m stunned at the non-stop updates that chasers and activators make. You can use the burst of updates to show that someone is on a wanted summit. As soon as Helen&Caroline M0YHB/G6WRW came on from Eigg you could see the traffic soar as chasers logged a rather infrequently activated summit. But I digress…
So now I can punt updates by typing “clone” on my PC, I cleaned out the chaser locations maps and generated some fresh ones using the latest database. The positions of chasers is subject to error. The location data was accuarte up to July 2009. However, any chase from when SOTA started is included. Some chasers could have moved several times but they are only shown for their 2009 position. Take the results with the necessary pinch of NaCl.
There are maps for The Cloud, Gun, Shining Tor, Moel Famau and Foel Fenlli. The name gives the frequencies used. So Cloud2m70cm.html will be for chasers who worked The Cloud on 2m or 70cms. Red markers are drawn for the first frequency and blue for the second. Likewise Cloud4m6m.html is red for 4m and blue for 6m. This is for all modes. For HF maps, red is for 3.5,5,7MHz and blue is for 10,14MHz.
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/Cloud2m70cm.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/Cloud4m6m.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/CloudHF.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/FoelFenlli2m70cm.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/FoelFenlli4m6m.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/FoelFenlliHF.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/Gun2m70cm.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/Gun4m6m.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/GunHF.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/MoelFamau2m70cm.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/MoelFamau4m6mm.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/MoelFamauHF.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/ShiningTor2m70cm.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/ShiningTor4m6m.html
http://www.moosedata.com/sotamaps/chaser_locations/ShiningTorHF.html
I hope this is of interest.
Andy
MM0FMF