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James Watson edited this page Mar 1, 2018
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Welcome to the voacapl wiki!
As voacapl is port of VOACAP, much of the information here is applicable to VOACAP as well.
The formatting of the input deck is critical to the operation of voacap and many 'bugs' can be traced to a malformed deck. This section defines the formatting of the input deck.
This card is used to define the characteristics of the transmit and receive antennas and is formatted as follows;
ANTENNA 1 1 2 30 0.000[harris/[email protected] ] 0.0 0.4000
ANTENNA 2 2 2 30 0.000[harris/1950BD10.anw ] 23.2 0.0000
This is read by voacapl with the following;
1510 FORMAT(10X,4I5,f10.3,1x,a21,1x,f5.1,f10.4)
READ(INPUT,1510) IAT,iantr,minfreq,maxfreq,designfreq(iantr),antfile(iantr),beammain(iantr),pwrkw(iantr)
| Columns | Name | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-10 | Label | 10X | ANTENNA Label |
| 11-15 | IAT | I5 | Antenna Type (1 = Transmit, 2 = Receive) |
| 16-20 | iantr | I5 | integer value to identify antenna |
| 21-25 | minfreq | I5 | Minimum frequency of operation |
| 26-30 | maxfreq | I5 | maximum frequency of operation |
| 31-40 | designfreq | F10.3 | Antenna design frequency |
| 41-61 | antfile | A21 | Filepath to the relevant antenna file (relative to the itshfbc directory) |
| 62-66 | beammain | f5.1 | Antenna bearing (degrees) |
| 67-76 | pwerkw | f10.4 | Power (kW) |