---
name: "voa3DPlot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pythonprop"
version: "0.30.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/voa3DPlot"
---

# voa3DPlot(1)

Plot the contents of VOACAP output files in a 3D format

## NAME

voa3DPlot - Plot the contents of VOACAP output files in a 3D format

## SYNOPSIS

**voa3DPlot \[options\] file**

## DESCRIPTION

**voa3DPlot** A python script used to graphically display the contents of output files produced by VOACAP.

## OPTIONS

- \--version

  Shows program version number and exit.

- \-h, --help

  Shows a help message and exit.

- \-b band, --band=band

  Displays a band plan indicated by 'band', an integer value from 1 to 3 (1:SWL, 2:UK AMATEUR BANDS and 3:KSA AMATEUR BANDS).

- \-f max\_frequency, --freqmax=max\_frequency

  Specifies the maximum frequency (MHz) to display on the Y axis.

- \-g group, --group=group

  Specifies the group(s) within a file containing multiple groups to plot.  Multiple groups must be separated by commas, e.g. '-g 1,3,4' (default = 1).

- \-l 'label', --label='label'

  Specifies the text label to be printed as a main title at the top of the plot.

- \-m colourmap, --cmap=colourmap

  Specifies the colourmap to use. Supported colour maps are 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper',', 'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring', 'summer', 'winter' (default = 'jet').

- \-o outputfile, --outfile=outputfile

  Used to specify an output file to save the plot to.

- \-q, --quiet

  Process quietly, don't produce a graph on the screen.  This only makes sense when used in conjunction with the -o option.

- \-t type, --datatype=type

  Specifies the type of image to plot.  Supported image types are 0:None 1:MUFday 2:REL 3:SNR 4:S DBW (default = 1).

- \-z timezone, --timezone=timezone

  Specifies the timezone to shift the plots to.

## AUTHORS

This program was written by James Watson (M0DNS) \<jimwatson at mac dot com\>.

This manual page was written by David da Silva Polverari \<polverari@debian.org\> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).