In SEAMCAT, you can build your own library of components (systems, antennas etc.) or use those created by someone else. It is possible to use predefined antenna patterns, spectrum emission masks, and propagation models etc. which are available in the SEAMCAT library, so that you do not have to reinvent the wheel every time you have studies to perform. You can join the SEAMCAT community to contribute to this activity.
The SEAMCAT community is a forum where active SEAMCAT users like you can report feedback on the use and improvement of the tool (see Section 2.22). This includes the members of STG but also users from universities and organisations all around the world. This community has extended itself well beyond the CEPT borders as depicted in Figure 17.
You can contribute to the community by sharing workspaces, sharing and populating libraries, creating and sharing plugins (EPPs, propagation plugins, etc...) and contribute to ECC and CEPT reports with SEAMCAT simulations. Any plugins are automatically embedded, so you just have to send your workspaces by email.
The SEAMCAT application is open source and it is available free of charge.
The SEAMCAT community is accessible via different media:
- SEAMCAT email reflector (seamcat@list.cept.org):
- To subscribe: mailto:seamcat-request@list.cept.org?subject=Subscribe;
- To unsubscribe: mailto:seamcat-request@list.cept.org?subject=unsubscribe;
- STG-ECO forum (http://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/wg-se/stg/client/forum).
Figure 17: Usage of SEAMCAT within and outside the CEPT (downloads in 2014)