Link-QRV

Copyright @ 2017 Hans Insulander (SM0UTY) [email protected].

Link-QRV is a tool for radio link planning. It is currently a work in progress and is not really usable yet.

Planned features

There are some planned features, in no particular order:

• Placement of sites
• Placement of links between sites
• Terrain profile of links between sites
• Include earth curvature in terrain profile
• Plot Fresnel zone in profile
• Saving user data in a database
• Radio propagation simulation of links beteen sites
• User authentication
• Multiple maps per user
• Sharing maps between users
• Read-only publicly visible maps with a static URL
• Downloadable maps in GeoJSON format

Running Link-QRV

Prerequisites

To run Link-QRV, you need a Linux or Mac OS X machine with:

• NodeJS
• NPM
• Bower

Installing

Install NPM packages: npm install

Next, install Bower packages: bower install

Create directory for downloaded HGT files: mkdir -p data/hgt

Run Link-QRV: node index.js

You can now access Link-QRV at http://localhost:8082