[vcf-midatlantic] 1968 Longley-Rice model in Fortran IV

[Dave McGuire]

On 12/25/22 09:25, Mike Markowski via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> I just subscribed to the list last week, still getting a feel for topics 
> and hope this one is of interest.  I was recently looking into the RF 
> propagation model by Anita Longley and Phil Rice, still widely used 
> after a half century.

   Last I checked, Maxwell's equations haven't changed. ;)

> Going from one old report to another, I found the 
> original 1968 CDC-3600 Fortran IV source code as an appendix in a 
> report.  After correcting the many OCR errors with O/D/0/Q, I/l/1 and 
> similar, I posted about it to the PiDP11 mailing list.  Several folks 
> joined in and the code now runs on several old OSes in addition to F77 
> if you want to run it on linux.  The output is, well, admittedly not as 
> fun as a game, but if you want some contemporary code for your retro 
> computing or happen to also be an EE working in RF, it is at
> 
> https://udel.edu/~mm/itm/

   Oooh!  Very nice work.  We'll get that running on real iron at LSSM. 
Screw games...life's too short, and the real world is much more interesting.

   Excellent work.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA