VOACAP (Voice of America Coverage Analysis Program) [1] is a radio propagation model that uses empirical data to predict the point-to-point path loss and coverage of a given transceiver if given as inputs: two antennas (configuration and position), solar weather, and time/date. Written in Fortran, it was originally designed for Voice of America.
Some movies on the coverage during daytime can be found here. [2]
Currently versions based on the original source tree exist for Windows, Linux (voacapl) [3] and OSX. [4] The program core uses text files for I/O and a bunch of wrappers now exist.
Besides commercial visualization tools, there are also Open Source implementations with GUI:
For immediate results, VOACAP provides a web interface for both the coverage [7] and the prediction. [8]
VOACAP (Voice of America Coverage Analysis Program) [1] is a radio propagation model that uses empirical data to predict the point-to-point path loss and coverage of a given transceiver if given as inputs: two antennas (configuration and position), solar weather, and time/date. Written in Fortran, it was originally designed for Voice of America.
Some movies on the coverage during daytime can be found here. [2]
Currently versions based on the original source tree exist for Windows, Linux (voacapl) [3] and OSX. [4] The program core uses text files for I/O and a bunch of wrappers now exist.
Besides commercial visualization tools, there are also Open Source implementations with GUI:
For immediate results, VOACAP provides a web interface for both the coverage [7] and the prediction. [8]