nanoBTS transmit power

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Dieter Spaar spaar at mirider.augusta.de
Sat Nov 14 20:42:44 UTC 2009


Hello Holger,

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:45:43 +0100, "Holger Freyther" <zecke at selfish.org> wrote:
> 
> Good question. I think Dieter knows this best. We have two options that 
> influence the transmit power. One is the power a mobile station should use to 
> communicate with us ("ms max power") and then something I don't know 
> ("max_power_red") but we do have links to the spec in the vty_interface.c

"max_power_red" is the power used by the BTS, it reduces the maximum
power by a certain amount. Those are the results from a measurement
I already posted a while ago to the list:

  nanoBTS 1800, ARCN 840, no voice/data traffic:

  NM_ATT_RF_MAXPOWR_R    RF output

    0                    20   dBm
    1                    18   dBm
    2                    16   dBm
    4                    12   dBm
    8                     4.4 dBm
    9                     2.0 dBm
   10                     0.4 dBm
   11                    -1.6 dBm
   12                    -3.6 dBm

Please be aware that the value "max_power_red" from the config file
is divided by two to get NM_ATT_RF_MAXPOWR_R ("max_power_red" is the
actual reduction in dB).

Best regards,
  Dieter
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Dieter Spaar, Germany                           spaar at mirider.augusta.de




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