On Monday 28 November 2011 11:20:03 Eric van den Berg wrote: > On 11/28/2011 06:14 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: > > On Monday, November 28, 2011 18:31:42 Eric van den Berg wrote: > >> For GA (what I have handy right now): > >> The good old Garmin 400 series: VOR/LOC:-103.5dBm, GS:-87dBm > >> Avidyne (EntegraII): VOR: 5uV, LOC and GS: 10uV > >> > >> www.repeater-builder.com/measuring-*sensitivity*/*dbm*2uv.pdf > >> /for conversion table!/ > >> > >> The Avidyne is TSO minimums if I remember correctly. Their units tend to > >> depend on GPS (and thus do not care much for radio navigation). > >> > >> Airline stuff goes down to like 0.5uV (so much more sensitive and > >> expensive). They can receive a VOR signal at FL300 at quasi-optical > >> range! > > > > Thanks, that is useful data! From what I could gather from different > > sources on the internet, typical VOR ground equipment operates with > > around 100-200 W ERP, am I correct?
> That I do not know. But I do know there are long-range and short-range > VOR-s with significantly different output levels. Not sure how to > determine the difference easily. > For NDB-s it is more easy. The short range ones are on or near the > threshold and at the FAP typically. The nav.dat file contains 'range' in nm for the nav-aid. http://data.x-plane.com/file_specs/Nav740.htm Perhaps you could use some heuristic to create a reasonable power level to meet the published range? Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
