Comms v0.10
Mountaintop radio sites, the nets on each and the tone that opens them, and which ones a handheld here is likely to reach.
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02 What it does
Mountaintop radio sites on the ATAK map, nearest first, with the nets that live on each one and the tone that opens each repeater. Answers "what is the closest Command 5 repeater, what mountain is it on, and what tone does it use" from a side pane, and works out which of those sites a handheld where you are standing is likely to reach.
Technical details features in full, requirements, network
Features in full
Capabilities
- Radio sites from the Cal OES FIRENET and CESRS relay layers, the USFS communications-site layer, and the operator's own rows, with county and ground elevation.
- The nets on each site, with the tone that opens that repeater, as Hz and, on a California site, as the California tone number ("Tone 8 (103.5)"). Outside California a site shows the Hz alone, because each plan numbers its tones differently. One tone per site: the one a radio transmits to key that mountain.
- Search by site name, net name or designator, tone or callsign, and loosely: "cdf command 5", "CDF C5" and "cdf 5" all find the same net. When the search names a net, each row shows that net's line at that site, so the nearest one is readable from the list.
- Nearest first, measured from the device or from the map center, within a chosen radius, filtered by agency with counts.
- Site details: county, elevation, distance and bearing, and every net on it.
- Which sites a handheld where you are standing is likely to reach: the terrain between is walked over the device's elevation data, the worst obstruction is scored for diffraction loss and weighed against a handheld's link budget, and each site comes back likely, marginal or unlikely. A likely site lights up green on the map and heads the list. A guide, not a prediction, and labeled as such. There is deliberately no viewshed anywhere: drawn from a repeater it reads as a coverage map and is not one, and drawn from the operator its answer moved with the range setting.
- Catalog refreshed from the depot host once a day and on demand, with the built-in copy and the last download as fallbacks. Adding a site or a net is a catalog change, not a plugin release.
Equipment required
An Android device running ATAK-CIV 5.6, 5.7 or 5.8. Elevation data on the device (DTED, for example from Map Depot) for the line-of-sight check.
Works with
Tested on Samsung Galaxy S21+, Note 20, S22 Ultra and XCover Pro.
Network and security
Outbound HTTPS (TCP 443) to mapdepot.takwerx.org for the catalog. Nothing inbound. The plugin works offline from its built-in catalog.
03 User manual
Download the PDF · The same manual ships inside the plugin, under ATAK’s Tool Preferences.