It is good that you talk with the provider before doing drive-arounds as
in my area a drive around would pretty tell you there is no service
since our cpe average antenna is about 30 feet AGL.
On 8/4/2011 2:18 PM, Spann, Chip wrote:
Connected Nation employs actual wireless engineers, most of whom have
25+ years of experience in EBS, BRS, WCS, AWS, LMDS, PCS and
unlicensed wireless bands. Most of us have also been WISPs ourselves
and, to that end, we understand your business quite well. Radio
Mobile is one of the propagation modeling tools we use but we also
have 5 licensed copies of EDX Signal and Signal Pro. We have tested
and used MapInfo, CelPlan, Splat and more than a dozen other wireless
propagation modeling tools.
Mr. Webster states that his methodology is easy to use and
understand. Some states have neither methodology nor staff for
addressing fixed wireless. Perhaps our methodology is more complex
yet, at the end of the day, state mapping agents are required to
effectively deliver the same product to NTIA. I head up the fixed
wireless and mobile wireless user group at NTIA and have a published
white paper explaining our rather long, but exceptionally detailed,
methodology and would be happy to share it with this group upon request.
Finally, some mapping agents (like our company) go beyond simply
creating a theoretical propagation model -- we do conduct static field
tests and compile data at hundreds of points during drive tests. Last
year we drove over 100,000 miles last year, spectrum analyzer and CPE
in hand, conducting tests and using the data to refine our propagation
models.
However, nothing is as important than the relationship between the
mapping agent and the WISP. In the states where we are engaged, we
spend a great deal of time talking to and working with the WISPs so
that we have a keen understanding of their system BEFORE we create
propagation models.
Charles "Chip" Spann
Director - Engineering & Technical Services
Connected Nation
(270) 799-0448
[email protected]
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