BTS-MS direct connection.

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Nik Pakar nikpakar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 18:01:17 UTC 2012


Phew ! why do you need to do this at all ?

To avoid RF emission ? even using this method you will still leak out
enough RF which you can easily use the MS over the air.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to directly cable a handset to a nanoBTS and thought I could:
>
> - put attenuators on the nanoBTS TX and RX ports
> - connect the other side of each attenuator to a resistive
> splitter/combiner that has 6dB loss
> - connect the combiner common port to the MS
>
> Does this sound sensible and if so what size of attenuators might I
> want assuming MS and BTS were each set at 6dBm? I've seen figures for
> receiver sensitivity, but wasn't sure as to a "good" RF level to use
> with direct cabling!
>
> I also have 10/20 dB directional couplers and circulators if they
> might find use in a better configuration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Back
> http://carrierdetect.com
>
>
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