[Xastir] Announcing Splat 1.2.0b with support for Xastir .geo files

[Rodney Baker]

Hi all.

Some of you may be aware of Splat!, a console-based radio path and coverage 
profiling tool for Linux. The author (John Magliacane KD2BD) has recently 
released version 1.2.0b which now has support for generating Xastir .geo 
files so that the topo map output can be displayed directly in Xastir.

This can be useful for showing the predicted versus real coverage of aprs 
repeaters. A xastir snapshot showing a Splat! generated coverage map of 
vk5rsc aprs repeater is available (I hope) at 
http://vk5ztv.ham-radio-op.net:53675/aprs/default.html

Splat! can be downloaded at http://kd2bd.ham.org.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the author of Splat!, except as a 
satisfied user who requested and tested the .geo file creation feature (and a 
couple of others). John was good enough to add and I figured that other 
Xastir users could find it useful so I said that I would announce its 
availability here as a service to list members who have a use for this sort 
of tool.

Any questions relating to Splat! should be directed to the author.

Regards,

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Rodney Baker VK5ZTV
rodney.baker at optusnet.com.au
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