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New! GloTEC F2 Data as Map Images with Tooltips

 Sometimes you need a 3-D visualization of data, and sometimes you don't. I just posted a page  with foF2, hmF2, and MUFD(3000km) map images. All the maps are updated to the latest available data when you open or refresh the page. Map values are available—via tooltips—by hovering your map over the portion of the map your interested in. These maps contain the same data displayed in the 3-D Cesium Ion map . Please let me know what you think. All constructive feedback is welcome!

Turns out the F2 is really high: Finally! QSO Specific F2 Visualization

 OK, so this is just kinda cool! Suppose you're operating near mountains and are curious if your QSOs are hopping over the mountains, or if they're knife edge diffracting after smacking right into the mountain. You'll need to know how high the F2 layer was between your station and the receiving station and you'll need to be able to visulaize the path with respect to the mountain. It's taken a while, but we have that now!  Thanks to the GloTEC data curtesy of the NOAA, we know the F2 heights all over the world at the time of each QSO. We can also map our QSOs on a Cesium map with toplogy. This allows us to start with maps like this: where I wondered on the day of the QSO if TouCans' signal would clear the high way embankment, and found out that yes, yes it did. Check out the interactive map below. It has all the QSOs loaded with their actual F2 skip heights.

Project TouCans/GloTEC F2 Maps

This has been fun! KO6BTY and I have been working on QSO maps on 20 meters vs. the F2 layer for the last few years. We finally have a map of the F2 layer, one half hour behind real time with global data provided by the NOAA's GloTEC product . Check it out .