Thursday, October 1, 2009

Explorer Report, eh!

Bell Canada / Aliant's network in Newfoundland is fantastic. Really, I'm sure of it. 850 MHz means it's right in the middle of the tuning range of our antenna.

Too bad it's 1x/EVDO. That's right, CDMA.

Maybe we'll still get to Kazakhstan. Here's a coverage map from there (source: beeline.kz)

Walking a tightrope (aka garbage in, garbage out, rolling dice, etc.)

Thanks to NOAA's Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model, you can take a point in space/time and figure out where that "particle" will blow to.

If you want, you can manipulate the numbers to show anything you'd like them to show. Just varying the start point and altitude leads to these results... Kazakhstan, England, France, or middle of the Atlantic.

Again, these forecasts are approximately as accurate as the weather forecast. Your mileage may vary.