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What Was New in GEOPoint Version 3.05

GEOPoint Program

Release Date: May 2013.

The following main features were added or changed in version 3.05:

New Features

Lite Features (Free)

After selecting a city on the Major City Selection Tool, the city name will be displayed in brackets above the earth station coordinates on the main dialog. The displayed city name will be cleared if the coordinates are manually edited.
The Map Window now shows the latitude and longitude coordinates to 4 decimal places. This may be convenient for example if the user has entered coordinates on the main window as D,M,S, then he can go to the Map dialog to see them in decimal format.

Pro Features (requires Registration)

In the User Site Selection tool, the user can now also select site coordinates from GPX or AMG format files. GPX is a common format produced by GPS units and related software. Sites may also be selected from the Maplist format files used by GreatCirc and World1.
If a named city has been selected from the Major City Selection tool, or the User Site Selection tool, then site name will be displayed beside the latitude and longitude coordinates on the GEO Arc.
The Sun, Rain and Summary reports will all include the site name, if a site has been selected using the Major City Selection tool, or the User Site Selection tool.
Axis labelling has been improved when zooming GEO Arc axis scales on a satellite track.
There are new options on the GEO Arc View Menu to save and re-load font preferences, including the colour scheme.
All climate and rain attenuation calculations updated to latest ITU-R Recommendations.
Climate, water vapour, and rain-rate data files updated with the latest ITU-R Climate data.
The Climate tab on the main dialog now includes "Probability of Rain (average year)" as calculated in ITU-R Rec. P.837-6 2012. This value is now also included in the reports.
The Path Loss Estimator dialog, and the rain reports have been modified to include "Cloud Attenuation" as a separate parameter. This component of attenuation (calculated per ITU-R Rec. P.840-4) can be significant for higher frequencies such as Ka band.
The Path Loss Estimator dialog, and the rain reports now also show the Equivalent Worst-Month availability, for the user input annual availability figure (calculated as per ITU-R Rec. P.841-4).
Improved antenna G/T Estimation for frequencies >30GHz.

Bug Fixes & Other Refinements

fixed rounding error where a decimal degrees conversion to D,M,S sometimes resulted in a value of 60 in the minutes box.
fixed a bug on the GEO Arc where a satellite ephemeris track was sometimes incorrectly reported as being below the horizon.
fixed bug where GEOPoint would lock-up if the user chose to Save AzEl List in 'TXT' file format.
minor improvements to layout of HTML and CSV report files.
miscellaneous code improvements.

To find out what was new in previous version 3.04, click here.