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