From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Naylor Subject: ANNOUNCE: UKW Tools 0.02 released Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:05:58 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200212110905.58203.jonathan.naylor@ggaweb.ch> Reply-To: g4klx@qsl.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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.