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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Radio Light -


I’ve got hamtrak, my communications monitoring program, running more reliably. It listens on my soft radio and plots pins in Google Earth as amateur radio contacts occur. I wanted to know if there was bias in the reception I was getting due to geographic, antenna or electronic factors. I let it run for 11 hours. Then I compared the picture it produced with US population as seen from space:





For this small sample, the visual correlation appears representative.