man baken (Commandes) - Visualisation of European VHF/UHF and microwave beacons
NAME
baken - Visualisation of European VHF/UHF and microwave beacons
SYNOPSIS
baken
DESCRIPTION
The idea behind baken is to allow for the visualisation of European VHF/UHF and microwave beacons on a map of Europe. As input it takes the file produced by G3UUT the Region 1 Beacon Co-ordinator, and attempts to extract the beacon data from it.
Most of the program is simple of understand. At any given time the map shows the beacons for any one band from 50 MHz to 47 GHz. By moving the mouse to a square and clicking the left mouse button, another window opens displaying the beacons in that square in more detail, and any cities to be found lying about. By moving the mouse near to a beacon, information about the beacon is displayed in a window below the map.
Included in the package in the directory /usr/share/baken are 2 little programs: 'iaru' which converts the IARU beacon file to the format used by the program and 'rslist' that can parse the Rain Scatter station list from DG1VL.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joop Stakenborg <pa3aba@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).