4 Entered-date: 2006-04-01
5 Description: SPLAT! is a terrestrial RF propagation analysis tool for
6 the spectrum between 20 MHz and 20 GHz. SPLAT! provides
7 site engineering data such as the great circle distances
8 and bearings between sites, antenna elevation angles
9 (uptilt), depression angles (downtilt), antenna height
10 above mean sea level, antenna height above average
11 terrain, bearings and distances to known obstructions,
12 path loss based on the Longley-Rice Irregular Terrain
13 Model, and minimum antenna height requirements needed
14 to establish line-of-sight communication paths absent
15 of obstructions due to terrain. SPLAT! produces
16 reports, graphs, and highly detailed and carefully
17 annotated topographic maps depicting line-of-sight paths,
18 path loss, and expected coverage areas of transmitters
19 and repeater systems. Applications of SPLAT! include
20 site engineering, wireless network design, amateur
21 radio communications, frequency coordination,
22 communication system design, and terrestrial
23 television and radio broadcasting. SPLAT! requires
24 gnuplot version 3.7, libbzip-1.0.1 or later, and
25 zlib, as well as an application capable of displaying
26 PPM graphic files (xv, ImageMagick, xpaint, The GIMP, etc.).
27 Keywords: Terrain analysis, site engineering, Longley-Rice path
28 loss, TV/FM radio broadcasting, TV/FM radio reception,
29 amateur radio, wireless WAN analysis and design
30 Author: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane) (Creator, Lead Developer)
31 mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (L-R Model Integration)
32 Maintained-by: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane)
33 Primary-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/ham/splat-1.1.1.tar.gz
34 Original-site: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html