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