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Wireless Coverage/propagation?

Why not Try mikrotik boards RB411 and some Ubiquiti cards?

reply to Oxygen69
Radio Mobile loaded with the correct frequency, TX, RX, antenna gain, and antenna heights should offer a bit of insight as to your covered areas.

reply to Oxygen69
I'm not rally framiliar with mit or uni stuff.. maybe you could elaborate a little?

And man that Radio mobile program is hard to get terrain data into..

Post your coordinates here or pm me. Include the following: ap and cpe antenna height, radio specs for ap and cpe, antenna gain at ap and cpe, operating frequency range.

Give me 48 hours or so and I will have a map for you. I can kick out point to point profiles very fast, but getting terrain data for ptmp coverage maps makes the process take much longer.

Oh also be aware the map i give you won't factor land usage (trees, buildings, etc) so I guess you really won't have a true picture of near line of sight and non line of sight.

I wouldnt use 3.65 for near/non los anyway, personally.

reply to Oxygen69
I know 3.65 isn't best for NLOS, but I don't expect a lot of people to be that way. Even the cell network goes out here in slow rolling valleys, so I expect LOS to be obtained by most since people are spread out. I cannot see what would be great though for NLOS as 900MHz is noisy in general, and licensed frequencies would cost a fortune. I figure 3.65 is empty by me now so use while available.

reply to AMD Phreak
Where can you get Radio Mobile?

reply to Oxygen69
Just have to google for it and find it several places to download

»www.cplus.org/rmw/download/download.html

»www.cplus.org/rmw/getting_started.html

»www.pizon.org/radio-mobile-tutor···ile.html

»wireless.ictp.it/school_2004/lab···le/index

»www.g3tvu.co.uk/Quick_Start.htm
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Thanks. Now I've got everything but the SRTM tiles downloaded. Isn't dialup a joke! I should be able to download one 30 Mb zip file a night. I'll be done in less than a week.

reply to Oxygen69

Hmm not bad...

The Ubnt XR3 is using a 802.11 protocol, but I am looking for 802.16.

Does anyone know where to get a spectrum analyzer.. and not 2.4 or 5.8GHz I am looking to scan 1.5-6Ghz? Anything cheaper for a laptop or a place to rent them from?

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Re: Wireless Coverage/propagation?

I still don't get why people think Radio Mobile is that hard?

There are some good howto's that have you up and running in a few minutes.

I've been having trouble just downloading the area terrain data, as it is NOT doing it automatically, despite following the directions of editing the map files, ect....

I've got RM up and running. Also having trouble with terrain data. I borrowed a Verizon wireless usb and spent 3 hours downloading SRTM tiles (1/3 arc resolution) from the first site on the list at cplus.org (overkill I know, I always go for more than I need). The program says the data is missing and won't download from internet despite settings. I'm using the tutorial on pizon.org. Decided I shouldn't have unzipped with WinZip. I had saved the files so I unzipped with 7-ZIP, same thing. Now I am in the process of downloading "SRTM finished 1 arc second" files from USGS. At least these zipped files are 1/4 the size, hope the they work. I can download better resolution later. If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong feel free to speak up!

1 arc second is about the best resolution you will get.

Thanks for the info. I did finally get some RF plots done. After downloading many different formats I found two that worked. The GTOPO30(30 arc sec-1km) from usgs.gov, link on pizon.org and the The SRTM(1 arc sec-30m) from recordist.com, link on cplus.com, first choice under second heading.