I have a list of all the US radio stations and their Lat. Lon., and xmit power data.
What I'd like to do is be able to order results along a given course line that would correspond to a trip across the country. I'm not exactly sure how to pull this off. I suppose I could calculate waypoints on 50 mi intervals and then do a range search, but this seems less than elegant.
It's an interesting problem we were talking about this past week. Do you have the formats as well, so you could plan your route to find the music you want, or are you looking for a list of all radio stations you could listen to as you travel?
Since most cross-country trips aren't straight-line, you will probably be using some kind of way points anyway, especially if driving. One approach would be to take would be to look at a larger radius at the start point to find the nearest out of range station in the direction you are going, find where it would be in range, and use that as the next waypoint.
It has a dual purpose for me. I was intending to use the ADF (automatic direction finding) radio in my
aircraft which can tune AM radio stations. The ADF sees little use since the advent of GPS, so I thought
I might as well tune it to something I can listen to. The beneficial side effect is that since the direction finder is active it will point at the stations enroute.
The reason for my query is that I'd like to pick stations that are mostly along my flight path in a forward direction. As I pass them I'll switch to the next one. I was unable to find a database with station format,
MIT has a search engine that has them but doesn't provide the raw data.
