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.