ANNOUNCE: UKW Tools 0.02 released

[Jonathan Naylor <jonathan.naylor@ggaweb.ch>]

Hi Folks

The G4KLX software foundry is happy to announce that UKW Tools 0.02 has 
been released. So what is UKW Tools ?

UKW Tools is a kind of Goegraphic Information System (GIS) for radio 
amateurs. Taking elevation data that is freely available on the 
Internet, the program includes a suite of different funtions that allow 
you to visualise radio paths and locations.

I suggest that you look on my web site http://www.qsl.net/g4klx under 
Software and have a look at screen shots for more information, but 
briefly, the current functions are:

3D Map: Produces a map centred on a location that shows the topography 
around it. The colours may be changed, the viewing angle may be changed 
as can the type of projection used.

Horizon View: Plots the elevations of the surrounding obstacles as 
viewed from a site, an indication of their elevations and distance is 
given.

Show Map: Displays a map centred on a location with different colours 
used to denote heights. Moving the mouse over the map will result in 
information about the location below the mouse (locator and elevation). 
The colours may be changed.

Terrain: Given two locations the program will show the line of sight 
path between them. In many ways this is the most interesting function. 
The K (essentially the tropo conditions) value may be changed and when 
the mouse is over the disgram some data about the location pointed to 
will be shown.

There are two functions, Local Map and View which have not been 
implemented yet.

UKW Tools 0.01 was released a little while ago but not announced because 
it was a premature release to allow some operators to check their 
sites.

UKW Tools is written in C++ and makes use of the platform independent 
wxWindows toolkit and it is possible that it could be built on Windows 
as well as Linux.

Jonathan  G4KLX (HB9DRD until February 2003)

PS An article about the DSP functions used and the implementation of 
LinWSJT is to be published in DUBUS 4/2002, and it can also be 
downloaded from the Software page also. Warning, it is in Word 2000 
format.