[MVMA] MVHS<>DARA QRP

William Curtice william.curtice at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 19:53:05 EST 2021


Wow!

Is that delta what the trade refers to as "fade margin"?  :).

Bill

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 5:30 PM Chuck Gelm <nc8q-mesh at gelm.net> wrote:

> This link has been 100+ TxMbps since October.
> Tx power setting was 28 dBm, though it internally throttles back to 24 dBm
> at MCS 7/15.
> I was wondering if a pair of high power *small* dishes would have worked.
> That would have been a loss of 5 dBi still leaving a SNR of 25.
> Then what if the dishes were the *low power* models, that is another 3 dB
> SNR loss.
> The maybe only a SNR of 22.
> What the heck...I dropped the Tx power at each end to 10 dBm...down around
> 14 to 18 dB from maximum.
> Still gets a TxMbps of 30-40.
> :-)
>
> Chuck
>
>
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