In a message dated 5/28/2007 5:19:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
kr2q@optonline.net writes:
Would it not make more sense to specify the area (sq km, etc) to be
included? So that one
does not get crazy shapes, you could impose limits on the geometry (circles,
quadrilaterals,
maybe even a hexagon, etc. No "star shapes," etc.). You could also set
minimal and maximal
dimensions so that you don't have a spaghetti club.
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It would make more sense to use a maximum perimeter. A 175 mile radios
circle is about 1100 miles circumference; so just use any shape with no more
than, say, an 1100 miles perimeter. That could be 150 x 400, 50 x 500, etc.
Seems that would fit long skinny states like Florida and Tennessee pretty well.
If some club wants a 549 by 1 mile territory, what the heck, let them go for
it.
73 - Jim K8MR
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