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Old 15-Aug-2019, 5:47 PM   #5
rabbit73
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Originally Posted by Dagwood View Post
Also, there is a way of making a side (profile) view of the terrain, etc. showing the signals as they go through the air. Somebody (Rabbit?) did this for me a few years ago and I'd like to get this for my buddy. But the myriad of links and unfamiliar terms has me lost.
There are several ways of looking at a terrain profile beween a transmitter and his location.

If you click on the rabbitears.info report for his location
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchma...&study_id=4518

and then click on the Transmitter Distance (Miles) for a channel, a profile for that channel will come up. This is what the WPXJ terrain profile looks like. The red line is the direct signal path blocked by terrain; the blue line is the probable signal path.



There is a profile available from TVFool, but it is no longer correct because the WPXJ transmitter moved when it changed real channels from 23 to 24:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...dALLTV%26n%3d1

This is the WPXJ profile using other software:

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