Radio Mobile

Radio Mobile

by Roger Coudé, VE2DBE.

http://www.ve2dbe.com/english1.html

Radio Mobile is a Free Radio Propagation simulation program which operates over the frequency range of 20MHz to 20GHz. It is based on the ITS (Longley-Rice) propagation model.

The program enables elevation maps to be drawn of specified areas using downloaded SRTM data from the Space Shuttle Radar Terrain Mapping Mission, elevation contours and road maps to be added, and Radio Units (stations) specified for performance and placed where required.

Individual Radio Unit performance is specified as a Radio Operating 'System' for power, sensitivity, antenna parameters etc. and all 'Radio Links' between Units can be examined for path profile and signal parameters.

Signal coverage patterns can be produced for each separate Radio Unit if required. The 'Best Sites' to provide radio coverage to a number of specified Radio Unit locations can also be found.

The performance of a Radio Unit which is traversing a defined Route on the map can also be generated by the 'Route Radio Coverage' feature. It is also possible to use the 'Route' waypoint data with the 'Best Sites' feature, to find the best locations to provide full Route radio coverage.

The 'Best Unit' from a defined selection of Units which gives the maximum signal level and also a defined Signal to Interference ratio at a specific location may also be plotted. The combined Radio coverage from a selected number of Units is also available. The sum of all signals from multiple Units at each location can also be plotted if required.

Visitor locations from 25th October 2011

Just released, my Radio Mobile Handbook...

350 pages of reference and 'How to' data in 19 chapters.

Click here for more information!

Click here for my

Radio Mobile 'Quick Start' Installation

Program and Setup Guide page.

with New Version 11.1.5

This is the latest English Language version!

But is now available in 13 languages - see the Setup Guide for information.

For UK Amateurs, see the NGR datum converter.

Click here for my Installation program

But if you are working under Linux, first download Visual Basic Runtime (SP6) from Microsoft here. This has to be installed on your machine by a double click on the file name after downloading, before any other files are installed.

For a quick description of all my page Contents click here

and for an overview of the program features,

see 'An Introduction to Radio Mobile' from Radio Communication,

or a more recent article 'Radio Mobile - what can it do for you' published in AntenneX .

Many new features have been added to the program since 2003. These enable much faster evaluations of radio networks and scenarios to be tested before trying out on the ground.

For a description of the new csv format Network Files in V10.4.4

Click Here!

for a description of the Installation Folders Layout used

see

and for a description of an automatic multi-plot feature see

Only search my website

Practical Performance:

April 2006 - Site testing of locations generated by 'Find Best Sites' utilising the Waypoints used in the Route Radio Coverage feature, showed an incredible consistency with the predicted performance! This was confirmed during the two events covered by these UHF Repeater sites in April and May.

For a 'walk through' of the installation pane sequence,

click here to visit the 'Installation' page.

The following two articles were published in Radio Communication:

1180kB 'A general introduction to Radio Mobile.pdf'

133kB 'The Application of Radio Mobile to Fox Hunts.pdf'

Click here for Radio Mobile 'Screenshots'

from my 'Base' Network.

Click here for the 'Walk Best Site' screenshots page.

Improved Communications for an 18 mile Charity Walk.

Click here for my 'Route Radio Coverage' page.

View all the Radio Mobile page contents

The above RM web pages are available in .pdf format on the individual pages

or from here:-

For more information, join the Radio Mobile Yahoo Group