{"id":22381,"date":"2019-05-24T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22381"},"modified":"2019-05-24T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:57:51","slug":"new-propagation-prediction-tool-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/05\/24\/new-propagation-prediction-tool-released\/","title":{"rendered":"New propagation prediction tool released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB\u2019s Propagation Studies Committee (PSC) has released a new propagation tool for amateurs, based on the ITU\u2019s ITURHFPROP program.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is the work of programmer and PSC member James Watson, HZ1JW, and can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/proppy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rsgb.org\/proppy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new tool gives you hour-by-hour monthly median propagation predictions from a location you specify to one of 28 locations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Predictions are performed between the user&#8217;s position, expressed as a Maidenhead Locator\u2014or the default value of IO92 if not specified.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, performance for both long and short paths is evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>The results are presented in tables, with colours used to represent the Basic Circuit Reliability (BCR), and numeric values to indicate the predicted median receive power\u2014expressed in S Levels.<\/p>\n<p>As well as specifying your mode\u2014SSB, CW, FT8 and others\u2014you can also choose from a wide range of antenna types at both ends of the path.<\/p>\n<p>A tool to select your noise level is also included.<\/p>\n<p>The tool also loads the results two at a time so that you don\u2019t get an awkward 20-plus second delay while the computations are completed.<\/p>\n<p>The details you input are cached, so that you should not need to change them the next time you use the program.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also print out the month\u2019s predictions as a PDF file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB\u2019s Propagation Studies Committee (PSC) has released a new propagation tool for amateurs, based on the ITU\u2019s ITURHFPROP program. The tool is the work of programmer and PSC member James Watson, HZ1JW, and can be found at rsgb.org\/proppy. The new tool gives you hour-by-hour monthly median propagation predictions from a location you specify to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}