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I am not the Author of this
spectacular software, I have just provided an installer and additional data to enable
you to quickly obtain a working network to explore the program features, and modify to your own
requirements...
Ian D Brown, G3TVU.
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.
Radio Mobile 'Quick Start' Installation
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
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
and for a description of an automatic multi-plot feature see
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:
Copyright © RSGB 2006. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Used here with permission.
Copyright © RSGB 2008. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Used here with permission.
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
For more information, join the Radio Mobile Yahoo
Group
This page is available in .pdf format here.
You are Visitor Number since June 2003.
© Copyright G3TVU 24th December 2011
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