Tower distance calculator

[TadMadLad]

how do i find out what my position is.

I am a GPS nooby , speak to me as you would a child.

[Luke7777]

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<br />how do i find out what my position is.

I am a GPS nooby , speak to me as you would a child.
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Hit the sentech zone locator site. Find your stand, hover the mouse pointer over it and the coordinates will be display in the explorer bar at the bottom.

Now eat your food or there's no tv tonight [:D]

[nicroets]

Do you want a sweet ? [:I] Just get into the car....[:0]

The easiest way is to find your house with the zone locator. Then hold the mouse pointer over your house. In the bottom left two numbers will update as you mouse the mouse.

The one with the minus is your "Degrees south" (25.5 to 26.5 for gauteng, more for Dbn & Cpt) and the other one is the "Degrees east" (28.2 for gauteng, lower for Cpt and higher for Dbn.

If you use a GPS that display the numbers as 28.12.23.1, make sure you put in at least 2 dots in the form even if it's 28.12.0

Someone said there is GPS coordinates on www.icasa.org.za of all the TV towers. Does anyone have a link ?

[flashvc]

Yes, the icasa site's got a pdf with all the TV antennae with their GPS coords and frequency. That's the only way I tune my TV programs [:)]

http://www.icasa.org.za/Repository/r...%2028-11-9.pdf

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[regardtv]

I've added some of the sites from ProASM's post.

Hope this helps... don't have time to do more.

Rig

[nicroets]

Thanks R.

I didn't know about that post. I'll just use a gawk/sed/bash script to put all the info in my .csv

[flashvc]

nic, I've already converted them to csv if you wanna use it:

Johannesburg,Operational
12,Council Mineral Tech,27.5842,-26.0515,0,120,240
36,Bedfordview,27.0756,-26.1031,0,120,240
50,NorthCliff (Northpark Plaza),27.5902,-26.0842,120
66,Hyde Park,28.0159,-26.0731,0,240
66,Halfway Gardens (Allendale Road),28.0705,-26.0032,0,240
82,Randburg (Metro Centre),28.0019,-26.0540,120,240
82,Killarney,28.0314,-26.0959,0,120,240
82,Sentech (Radiokop),27.5447,-26.0621,120,240
82,Woodmead,28.0352,-26.0220,120,240
102,Fourways Exchange,28.0032,-26.0116,0,120,240
??,Fourways Golfpark,28.0011,-26.0059,0,120,240
110,Linksfield,28.0633,-26.1006,0,240
110,Helderkruin,27.5132,-26.0605,0,120,240
126,Sentech Tower (Brixton),28.0026,-26.1131,0,120,240
126,Hurlyvale,28.0914,-26.0842,0
126,Marlboro North,28.0545,-26.0507,0,240
126,Horizon View,27.5211,-26.0832,120,240

Johannesburg,Next to go on
12,JHB International,28.1350,-26.0756,0,120

Johannesburg,In Process
12,Bez Valley,28.0504,-26.1141,0,120
27,Sandton Primedia,28.0321,-26.0674,0,120,240
66,Lonehill,,
90,Lyndhurst,,
102,Sandton Morningside,28.0334,-26.0444,0,120,240
110,Floracliffe,27.5438,-26.0915,0,120,240
116,Bryanston,,

Pretoria,Operational
22,Kingsley Centre,28.1212,-25.4444,0,120,240
22,La Montagne,28.1851,-25.4447,0,120,240
36,Sunnyside,28.1224,-25.4553,0,120,240
50,Kilnerpark,28.1544,-25.4259,120,240
66,Menlo Park,28.1609,-25.4615,120,240

Pretoria,Next to go on
36,Hennopspark Ext.,28.0947,-25.5209,0,120,240

Pretoria,In Process
82,Lyttleton Manor,28.1151,-25.4950,0,120,240
90,Samrand,28.0838,-25.5605,0,240
110,Elardus Park,28.1524,-25.4927,0,240
126,Zita Park,28.1744,-25.4724,0,120,240
??,Centurion,28.1108,-25.5204,0,120,240

Durban,Operational
22,Chartwell (Umhlanga Rocks),31.0502,-29.4341,0,240
36,Mal Park (Hypermarket),31.0213,-29.4815,0,240
60,Sentech Durban North,31.0224,-29.4552,0,120,240
82,Sentech Bluff,31.0045,-29.5440,0,120,240
90,Sea Cow Lake,31.0032,-29.4825,0,120,240
102,Sunningdale,31.0252,-29.4448,0,120,240
126,Saratoga (La Lucia Mall),31.0413,-29.4505,0,240

Durban,Next to go on
12,Bay of Plenty,31.0204,-29.5047,0,120,240

Durban,In Process
12,Rockford (Pheonix),31.0213,-29.4258,120,240
60,Durban International,30.5525,-29.5748,0,120
66,Overport,InvernessBuilding,0,120,240

Capetown,Operational
None

Capetown,Next on to go on
12,Milnerton,18.3040,-33.5205,0,120,240
22,Salt River,18.2733,-33.5542,0,120,240
90,Loevenstein,18.3649,-33.5307,0,120,240
90,Goodwood,18.3224,-33.5434,120,240
90,Wynberg,18.2815,-34.0014,240
126,Parow North,18.3451,-33.5334,0
126,IS Terraces,18.2514,-33.5506,0,120,240

Capetown,In Process
12,Camps Bay,18.2244,-33.5657,0,120
12,Blouberg,18.2746,-33.4811,0,120
36,Amanda Glen,18.4026,-33.5117,0,240
66,CTN International,18.2533,-33.5736,0,120,240
82,Durbanville,18.3814,-33.5059,0,120,240
82,Constantia,18.2623,-34.0119,0,240
90,Sea Point,18.2350,-33.5434,0,120,240
110,Springfield,18.3614,-33.5103,120

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[Mean_Monster]

Great work!!!

Just a thing though is I live in Brackenfell and according to these settings Newlands is closer to me than Durbanville. Any one knowing Cape Town knows that that can't be. Durbanville is 10 kilos by car not even as the crow flies.

So something seems to not work so fine on Cape Town... any comments?

[VioNectro]

I think either the co-ords for sentech's zone locater are wrong or the co-ords for the
CT Durbanville / Parrow North / AmandaGlen towers are wrong.

What do I base this on? Well it seems Parrow North is now a coastal beach on the north side of Koeberg :P.

Also the fact that all the towers are 70+ Km's away from me had me wondering :P

[nicroets]

It didn't process the Cpt & Dbn coordinates correctly the first time, but it's all sorted out now.

[Mean_Monster]

Something is still not right as Durbanville is much closer to me than Newlands is.

[VioNectro]

I dont think it's the calculator thats the problem. It's either the co-ords that the sentech zonelocator gives us or the actual co-ords proasm gave for the towers. If I use the zone locator and find the co-ords given for parrow north durbanville ect. the location ends up being like 50-70km's from where the area's they claim to be in.

[Mean_Monster]

yeah VioNectro

It seems to be that durbanville and all these places have moved [}:)][:o)]

[nicroets]

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<br /> If I use the zone locator and find the co-ords given for parrow north durbanville ect. the location ends up being like 50-70km's from where the area's they claim to be in.
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The mistake you are making is that you are confusing DD.MM.SS notation with DD.ddddddddd notation.
DD.dddddd = DD + MM/60 + SS/3600

I fixed the y values of the Cpt towers in my calculator. At last everything should be right, but please post suspected error to the "Tower Information" thread.

[VioNectro]

Thanks nicroets things are in the right place now and every one at the office is *covered* with smiles [:p]