Jan Doeven SeniorTechnicalAdvisor,Nozema(TheNetherlands)
6.4 Terrestrial Service Area Planning
6.4.1 Introduction
The terrestrial service area planner specifies transmitter characteristics and calculates coverage areas, taking into account interference from other transmitters and noise. To do so, he or she has software tools, either commercial or company-made software. In the software tools, sets of planning criteria are used. Planning criteria are normalised values for a certain defined service quality with standardised receiving equipment and under standardised receiving conditions. A propagation prediction model is a critical part of the software.
It is worthwhile to note that, in a predicted coverage area, reception with the defined ...
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