Honestly LinkPlanner is remarkable at calculating this. Add in the trees and set the right dBi for the antennas and you'll get a damn good guess.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote: > It will be worse at 5GHz, and that's all you need to know. These days I > would consider -71 dBm marginal, and anything worse is not something that I > would want to start with. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 4/17/2017 1:51 PM, Christopher Gray wrote: > >> I'm looking doing some calculations for a link that is currently 4.7 >> miles effectively with M365 NanoBridges. >> >> The signal calculates out to -59 dBm, but in reality it is -71 dBm (12 db >> loss through foliage). >> >> Is there a decent way to estimate what the equivalent foliage loss would >> be at 5 GHz? >> > >