RESP's Terrain Analysis Packages (TAP)

RESP's Terrain Analysis Packages (TAP)

SoftWright is the developer of the Terrain Analysis Package - TAP^tm- for Windows XP PC-based software to perform evaluation of existing or proposed radio transmitter sites; radio coverage predictions, intermodulation studies and radio transmitter site administration; TV and FM broadcasting, MMDS, ITFS, PCS, SCADA, WLL, WiFi, WiMAX, microwave, cellular, paging, air-to-ground, ship-to-shore and conventional two-way radio system design. The Version 6.0 of the Terrain Analysis Package (TAP) for Windows XP consists of twenty-five modules that, when combined together, are tools that bring a broad capability of RF system design to your personal computer. Most studies are accessed through one of two main screens

My Comments

• Should be the cheapest one
• Support ESRI Shap file
• Only in 2d Display
• very old program (Should be eary'80 coz i found the word DMA)
  
• 25 standard modules combing using 2 main windows for operate
• Several propagation models are available in SoftWright's Terrain Analysis Package (TAP^TM) software. These include the following:
• Broadcast from FCC Report No. R-6602, "Development of VHF and UHF Propagation Curves for TV and FM Broadcasting," by Jack Damelin, et. al., September 7, 1966, and Part 73 of the FCC Rules.
• Carey from FCC Report No. R-6406, "Technical Factors affecting the assignment of facilities in the domestic public land mobile radio service," by Roger B. Carey, June 24, 1964, and Part 22 of the FCC Rules.
• Bullington from "Radio Propagation for Vehicular Communications," by Kenneth Bullington, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. VT-26, No.4, November 1977.
• Okumura from "Field Strength and Its Variability in VHF and UHF Land-Mobile Radio Service," by Yoshihisa Okumura, et.al., Review of the Electrical Communications Laboratory, Vol. 16, No. 9-10, September-October 1968.
• Longley-Rice from "Prediction of Tropospheric radio transmission over irregular terrain, A Computer method-1968.", A. G. Longley and P. L. Rice, ESSA Tech. Rep. ERL 79-ITS 67, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 1968.
• Egli from "Radio Propagation Above 40MC Over Irregular Terrain" (Proceedings of the IRE, Vol. 45, Oct. 1957, pp.1383-1391).
• Hata/Davidson from "A Report on Technology Independent Methodology for the Modeling, Simulation and Empirical Verification of Wireless Communications System Performance in Noise and Interference Limited Systems Operating on Frequencies between 30 and 1500MHz", TIA TR8 Working Group, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Propagation Committee, May 1997.
• Rounded Obstacle from Section 7 "Diffraction Over a Single Isolated Obstacle" and Section 9 "Forward Scatter" of Tech Note 101 ("Transmission Loss Predictions for Tropospheric Communication Circuits", 1967, NTIS) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory QZGBT program..

  Each of these models represents an attempt to predict radio propagation as it is affected by real-world conditions. A useful comparison of these and other models is found in an article entitled "Coverage Prediction for Mobile Radio Systems Operating in the 800/900 MHz Frequency Range," by IEEE Vehicular Society Committee on Radio Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. VT-37, No. 1, February 1988. MoreInformation

• US based ......no dealer !!!!and seem to be one man show company :)