+Begin3
+Title: SPLAT!
+Version: 1.3.0
+Entered-date: 11APR09
+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, received power level, received power density,
+ and signal strength based on the Longley-Rice Irregular
+ Terrain Model, and minimum antenna height requirements
+ needed to establish first Fresnel zone clearance and
+ line-of-sight RF 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
+ radio and HDTV television 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, signal strength contours, received power level,
+ TV/FM radio broadcasting, TV/FM radio reception, LPFM,
+ HDTV, 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)
+ ronbentley@embarqmail.com (Ron Bentley) (Fresnel Zone Plotting)
+Maintained-by: kd2bd@amsat.org (John A. Magliacane)
+Primary-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/ham/splat-1.3.0.tar.bz2
+Original-site: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html
+Platforms: Linux/Unix
+Copying-policy: GPL
+End