Right, but is what they do good enough? I think so. If I can get my name out there and even if I only service 90% of the calls, that's a win win.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Cameron Crum <cc...@wispmon.com> wrote: > Accurate propagation studies require a lot more than just submitting > coordinates, heights and frequencies. You really can't just use some set of > default numbers for all the parameters involved. You need antenna patterns, > gains (on both ends), C/I values, noise figures, and a whole host of other > info. This doesn't even include optimizing for clutter categories and > elevations. If you don't have this, you might as well just draw circles as > it would be about as useful. I spent a lot of years making good money doing > just this for the cellular industry. They understood that designing a > network incorrectly had dire financial consequences. We on the other hand > seem to think of prop studies as an after thought. While I know that we have > to go where the towers are and don't have the resources to build where we > want to get an optimized network, we should still take it seriously and do > it right when we decide to actually perform the study. > > Cameron > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Matt <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Someone asked on the Members List what they could do to help the overall >> > cause of trying to get/protect spectrum and to avoid CAF/USF pitfalls. >> > Thought it would be appropriate here as well: >> >> One thing I always thought might be helpfull. Allow all WISPA members >> to submit all there tower coordinates, heights and frequencies to >> WISPA. Run propagation studies on sites for them if they allow such >> data to be displayed on a Google Map on WISPA's site with the >> propagation patterns from all other members on it. WISPA would have >> benefit of true map and users would have benefit of getting copy to >> use themselves. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
