From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Kitchener Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: UKW Tools 0.02 released Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:01:20 +0000 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200212112101.21067.stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk> References: <200212110905.58203.jonathan.naylor@ggaweb.ch> Reply-To: stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200212110905.58203.jonathan.naylor@ggaweb.ch> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: g4klx@qsl.net, Jonathan Naylor , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Stephen Kitchener "The best way to accellerate a win9x machine is at 9.81m/s2"