We have a very similar situation. I use a few maps to Topo studies on them.
I use delorm topo for this. I can get a basic idea of hills and such. This
gets about 50% out of the way with only 10% failure rate for those things
you can't prepare for like a silo on their property and a two story tin shed
lol. If there is ANY questions on the topo, we put them in a folder for
physical surveys- where once a week, we take and drive to each location to
get a signal readout. No matter what we do, there's still the possibility
for failure and they are NOT happy to have the day off and all that
excitement with a failed install! I do understand, though. That is our
system so far and it is working decent. we also plot all working customers
and failed surveys (and listing the reasons why or why not) on a google map
that we keep.
Hope that helps somehow :)
Luke
----- Original Message -----
From: "chris cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: [WISPA] signal tests
Im wondering how everybody else is handling signal tests for resi
subscribers. We do most of our resi in heavily wooded very hilly
terrain, so coverage can be somewhat tricky to predict based solely upon
customer address - their mailbox/address may be at the top of the ridge
and they live down in the valley or vice versa. When a new prospect
comes in, we can make certain assumptions about their coverage based
upon topo, RM plots and historical install data. But this still leaves
us with a large number of potential customers that require a truck roll
and on site signal test. At some point the scale of doing this becomes
pretty large and time intensive. I don't feel that we can schedule
people for an install and determine when we arrive whether or not we can
do the install - most people have to take off work to meet us for the
install. Has anybody come up with a better solution than having a full
time signal test tech?
Thanks
Chris Cooper
Intelliwave
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