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 and signal strength based on the Longley-Rice
13 Irregular Terrain Model, and minimum antenna height
14 requirements needed to establish first Fresnel zone
15 clearance and line-of-sight RF paths absent of obstructions
16 due to terrain. SPLAT! produces reports, graphs, and
17 highly detailed and carefully annotated topographic maps
18 depicting line-of-sight paths, path loss, and expected
19 coverage areas of transmitters and repeater systems.
20 Applications of SPLAT! include site engineering, wireless
21 network design, amateur radio communications, frequency
22 coordination, 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, signal strength contours, TV/FM radio broadcasting,
29 TV/FM radio reception, LPFM, HDTV, amateur radio, wireless
30 WAN analysis and design
31 Author: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane) (Creator, Lead Developer)
32 mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (L-R Model Integration)
33 ronbentley@embarqmail.com (Ron Bentley) (Fresnel Zone Plotting)
34 Maintained-by: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane)
35 Primary-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/ham/splat-1.2.1.tar.gz
36 Original-site: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html