From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Naylor Subject: ANN: UKW Tools 0.3.2 released Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:49:58 +0000 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Hi Folks I'm pleased to announce that UKW Tools 0.3.2 has been released. This is an amateur radio GIS program type thingy, that allows for radio coverage, path plots and other good things to be done. In coverage mode it can be used for tracing the coverage of FM repeaters for example, the path plot mode is more useful for microwave types who want to get the path loss over a given path. There are lots of other bits and pieces that it does. The propagation model that it uses is the same as that used by John KD2BD in Splat! By using the wxWidgets (nee wxWindows) library, I have been able to make it portable to Windows also, and a Windows installer based version is also available on my web site. The source code for UKW Tools is GPL as is my source for the Windows installer. As released UKW Tools requires terrain data which is freely available on the Internet but requires access to broadband due to the amount required. The basic data I use is named SRTM and covers most of the earth at 90m-ish intervals but is sometimes inaccurate. I use either GTOPO30 or Globe data that covers the earth at 900m-ish intervals to remove any faults it finds. UKW Tools can be downloaded from http://www.qsl.net/g4klx under Software. My previous bits of software such as LinWSJT, MTrack and Baken are still available from the same place. Share and Enjoy Jonathan G4KLX PS does anyone know where I can get the source code for a soft decision Reed Solomon decoder ?