= SPLAT =

SPLAT is a very useful application used to predict propagation at frequencies from 20 MHz to 20 GHz.

The splat web site [[http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html|is here]]

== Packaging ==

Splat version 1.3.0 has not yet been packaged for Debian or Ubuntu.

Packaging is problematic for the following reasons:
 * Building splat is done by shell scripts and not makefiles
 * There are interactive decisions requested which determine how splat is built
 * These build-time decisions affect the terrestrial range that splat can be used for
 
== Installation ==

Installation is challenging because the user is required to download, unpack, process,
and install a lot of required terrain data in order to use splat.

== Wish List for Splat ==

 * convert all build-time decisions to run-time decisions
 * convert to makefile builds
 * A utility is needed to download and process the appropriate data files. This could be implemented as a google-maps type process, where the location and simulation range are used to determine which terrain data to download.