RL> Just how "near", or sensitive, is it?
RL> Where does it get the lat. and long. information?
RL> In my mind, this is a necessity for scanning!  Am I wrong???
    If you were operating a land station or something where you needed
    to know the exact coordinates for aiming a beam or something like
    that, latitude and longitude might be necessary.
    For regular scanner hobbyists, there is the amazing Delrina
    mapping software.  I've used the "professional" version and you
    can zoom all the way down to an altitude of about 1/10th of a
    mile, which shows details such as railroad tracks, major
    buildings, radio stations, etc.  With the geographic coordinates
    you could mark the exact location of transmitters.
    Then you can go in and mark the location of the transmitter site.
    That's exactly what I did for Sprint when I did some fiber route
    mapping for them a while back.  It was very slow work drawing
    the route along the railroad track from Oroville, California,
    to Salt Lake City and back.  I tried to find a way to import the
    site locations from an ASCII file, then all I'd have to do would
    be to draw the lines.  It's very slow drawing along railroad tracks
    when you have about 1/10th of a mile of map on your screen.
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