Re: ANNOUNCE: UKW Tools 0.02 released

[Stephen Kitchener <stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 08:05, Jonathan Naylor wrote:
Hi Jonathon,

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

Downloaded and compiled ok ok Mandrake 8.2, I wonder if anyone else has had 
the problems you talked about when they try and compile this and other 
software on Mandrake 9.0, and if there is a solution ?

>
> 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.
>
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Stephen Kitchener

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