Before removing the antenna, you might also want to try to set the R-power to 15 (0x0F). According to the data sheet of the Atmel RF230 (http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc5131.pdf, pages 59/60) this is the configuration value for the minimum TX power (-17.2dBm).
Cheers, Urs On 10/18/10 4:25 PM, Miklos Maroti wrote: > Remove the antenna. Miklos > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Faisal Aslam > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to reduce the transmission power of iris motes so that I can make a >> network in a very small place and produce results easily. I have tried using >> PFLAGS+=-DRF230_DEF_RFPOWER=1 but still a mote is able to transmit at a >> distance of more than a meter (too big). >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> -- >> Faisal Aslam >> >> University of Freiburg >> http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/aslam/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tinyos-help mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >> > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
