15.000 ; Earth Dielectric Constant (Relative permittivity) 0.005 ; Earth Conductivity (Siemens per meter) 301.000 ; Atmospheric Bending Constant (N-units) 300.000 ; Frequency in MHz (20 MHz to 20 GHz) 5 ; Radio Climate (5 = Continental Temperate) 0 ; Polarization (0 = Horizontal, 1 = Vertical) 0.5 ; Fraction of situations (50% of locations) 0.5 ; Fraction of time (50% of the time) This file contains Longley-Rice path loss parameters used by SPLAT! Anything after the 8th line is ignored by the program. Comments are allowed following each element of numeric data. No blank lines are allowed at the top. Earth dielectric constants and conductivity values are as follows: Dielectric Constant Conductivity Salt water : 80 5.000 Good ground : 25 0.020 Fresh water : 80 0.010 Marshy land : 12 0.007 Farmland, forest : 15 0.005 Average ground : 15 0.005 Mountain, sand : 13 0.002 City : 5 0.001 Poor ground : 4 0.001 Radio climate codes are defined as follows: 1: Equatorial (Congo) 2: Continental Subtropical (Sudan) 3: Maritime Subtropical (West coast of Africa) 4: Desert (Sahara) 5: Continental Temperate 6: Maritime Temperate, over land (UK and west coasts of US & EU) 7: Maritime Temperate, over sea The Continental Temperate climate (5) is common to large land masses in the temperate zone, such as the United States. For paths shorter than 100 km, there is little difference between Continental and Martitime Temperate climates. The final two parameters in the .lrp file correspond to the statistical analysis provided by the Longley-Rice model. In this example, SPLAT! will return the maximum path loss occurring 50% of the time (fraction of time) in 50% of situations (fraction of situations). Use a fraction of time of 0.97 for digital television, 0.50 for analog. Isotropic antennas are assumed. A tuned half-wave dipole has a gain of 2.14 dB above that of an isotropic antenna. Edit these parameters as required and save the result ("Save As") to a filename with an extension of ".lrp" in the directory normally used for .qth files (current working directory is assumed). The base of the filename MUST match the base of the corresponding SPLAT! transmitter site QTH filename for proper correlation between data sets. In other words: wnjt.qth <--- TX site data for WNJT wnjt.lrp <--- Corresponding Longly-Rice parameters for WNJT If an LRP file corresponding to the tx_site QTH file cannot be found, SPLAT! scans the current working directory for "splat.lrp". If this file cannot be found, then the default parameters listed above are assigned by SPLAT!, and a "splat.lrp" file containing these parameters is written to the current working directory. For further information on Longley-Rice model parameters, see: http://elbert.its.bldrdoc.gov/itm.html http://www.softwright.com/faq/engineering/prop_longley_rice.html Also consult SPLAT!'s documentation for more information.