Setting the power of a BTS

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Stuart Baggs stuart at bluewave.im
Fri Jun 4 15:28:51 UTC 2010


The only two ways to control a cells coverage area is to set the subscriber max distance attribute or reduce the BTS / MS TX power.

On 4 Jun 2010, at 15:18, Sergey V. Efimoff wrote:

> As far as I understand, he means that he wants to control BTS cover area.
> 
> On Jun 4, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Nordin wrote:
> 
>> On 4-6-2010 15:10, Luca Bertoncello wrote:
>>> Am Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:03:16 +0200
>>> schrieb Nordin<bouchtaoui at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> According to OpenBSC wiki:
>>>> "How many dBm is the nominal power of this BTS. This setting is only
>>>> used as a base for computing power levels displayed to the user. "
>>>> So this one is just to calculate the powervalue to be displayed for
>>>> you, so I assume it does nothing more than that.
>>>> 
>>>> But how do you test by the way?
>>>> 
>>> It's difficult to explain, but I just want to restrict (or enlarge) the
>>> field in which is my BaseStation to find.
>>> 
>>> Is it possible?
>>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, still don't know what you mean.
>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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