If you have, join the Yahoo RM group. Lots of help there. Plus links
to at least 2 tutorials.
Roger does this for a living and his employer sells a very nice
commercial package. They have been nice enough to allow him to to RM
for free, so we get a super program at no cost. This also means that
Open Source is out, as I am sure the source is too similar to their
commercial package. If you want the pay version, I am sure an e-mail to
him would get you company contact information.
There are at least 2 users that have done documentation and step-by-step
tutorials. Again, available from the Yahoo group.
If you just do the radio link function, it does not choose the best
network, it chooses the first network that both end-points are a member
of. There is a tutorial for best path analysis and it works fairly well.
The only time I would see a need for antenna patterns is if you have a
fixed-base AP and mobile CPE. If both are fixed-base, I am not sure
what the patterns will gain you. I do the same thing; I have a 5.8
network, a 2.4 network and a 900 network. Most of my POPs are setup
with 3 120* sectors, so all POPs are setup with an omni of the same gain
as the sector antenna. In my experience so far, the results are fairly
accurate when there is clear line-of-sight. If there are a significant
number of trees in the path, it obviously is not so good. I suppose if
you have 2 90* sectors trying to cover 360* you would want patterns to
find the nulls and edges, but if you have antennas for full coverage,
the pattern probably is not so important. For point to point links,
antenna pattern does not matter , assuming you are planning to aim the
antennas directly at each other as that is the assumption RM makes.
The Yahoo group has also had discussions about exports and imports.
There are several things you can do. Again, check out the tutorials.
I would have to disagree about the need for many improvements. Granted,
I have been using it for over 5 years, but I find everything to be where
expected and do what it should. Roger is open to suggestion, though.
Let him know what you would like to see.
Fred Goldstein wrote:
At 7/21/2010 11:41 AM, MarlonS wrote:
Radio Mobile hates everyone that doesn't use it every day.
It's a great tool, but boy is it frustrating! Roger has done a
wonderful thing by putting this out there for free and improving it as
he has. But there are so many things that could be done to improve
it, especially the clumsy user interface. If it were an open source
project, then more people could contribute to the effort. If he had a
premium payware version, then he'd have incentive to at least prettify
the pay version.
Documentation wouldn't hurt either...
My current project has set up three "networks" using the same batch of
nodes. One is 5.8 GHz backhaul. One is 900 MHz backhaul, for
heavy-forest paths. One is 5.8 GHz access. When it does the "show
networks", it doesn't seem to find the best path, but it's not
terribly predictable as to which common "network" it's using. So I
end up having to do path-by-path comparisons anyway.
My next chore is to add antenna patterns. I think this means taking
each node and turning it into two or three nodes, if it has two or
three separate sectors. I can "save network" as a CSV, but that seems
to only save the node locations. Copying network parameters between
projects seems impossible. :=(
grin
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert West <mailto:robert.w...@just-micro.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 7:38 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Ping --- Radio Mobile Hates Me.
Ping.
(Had to)
Bob-
Still fighting the animal that is Radio Mobile.
Why does Radio mobile Hate Me?
I should have been a HAM. Maybe it's just bad Karma........
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