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, received power level, received power density,
13 and signal strength based on the Longley-Rice Irregular
14 Terrain Model, and minimum antenna height requirements
15 needed to establish first Fresnel zone clearance and
16 line-of-sight RF paths absent of obstructions due to
17 terrain. SPLAT! produces reports, graphs, and highly
18 detailed and carefully annotated topographic maps
19 depicting line-of-sight paths, path loss, and expected
20 coverage areas of transmitters and repeater systems.
21 Applications of SPLAT! include site engineering, wireless
22 network design, amateur radio communications, frequency
23 coordination, communication system design, and terrestrial
24 radio and HDTV television broadcasting. SPLAT! requires
25 gnuplot version 3.7, libbzip-1.0.1 or later, and zlib, as
26 well as an application capable of displaying PPM graphic
27 files (xv, ImageMagick, xpaint, The GIMP, etc.).
28 Keywords: Terrain analysis, site engineering, Longley-Rice path
29 loss, signal strength contours, received power level,
30 TV/FM radio broadcasting, TV/FM radio reception, LPFM,
31 HDTV, amateur radio, wireless WAN analysis and design
32 Author: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane) (Creator, Lead Developer)
33 mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (L-R Model Integration)
34 ronbentley@embarqmail.com (Ron Bentley) (Fresnel Zone Plotting)
35 Maintained-by: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane)
36 Primary-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/ham/splat-1.3.0.tar.bz2
37 Original-site: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html