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34 - TCM - Telecommunications Technologies
TCM 135 - Pathloss V Workshop
| Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TCM 135 | 28 October 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| TCM 135 | 02 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
Course Description
Participants of this course will be able to plan microwave point-to-point links using software planning tool Pathloss 5.0, including ability to analyse data from path surveys, create respective profile data and decide upon antenna heights, calculate Performance and Availability percentages of the link and optimise them with respect to the ITU-R objectives as well as cost-effectiveness.
General Knowledge of Microwave Radio Communications Engineering Concepts.
The minimum number of participants required is 4 pax.
Course Objectives
- Understanding General Program Operation and detailed functions of all the Pathloss software Modules.
- Understanding the meanings of different types of terrain data types, Geographic defaults, Datum and Ellipsoids, and their selection criteria
- Carrying out basic procedures to create terrain profiles from primary and secondary terrain data files.
- Carrying out antenna center line calculations and determine the minimum antenna heights which will result in acceptable diffraction loss at the lowest expected value of K with Pathloss diffraction Module
- Determining the optimal space diversity antenna spacing to avoid simultaneous signal nulls (Reflection Module)
- Generating Link Budgets and understand the significance of multipath propagation reliability and analyze microwave links
- Understanding and apply fade probability models and how to use the in Pathloss link predictions
- Calculating diffraction loss of a radio wave propagating over irregular terrain using a number of diffraction models supported by Pathloss program
- Conducting Interference calculations down to the composite threshold degradation of the victim receivers due to multiple interferers.
Course Overview
The offered course is a 5 days intensive Pathloss V link planning tool, which allowed students to develop an intuitive understanding of both the theoretical concepts and their practical application when planning links with Pathloss link planning tool. The Pathloss V program is a comprehensive path design tool for radio links operating in the frequency range from 30 MHZ to 100 GHz. The program is organized into several path design modules.
Who Should Attend?
- Telecommunication practicing engineers
- Network designers
- Engineering managers
- IT professionals working in mobile operators
- Oil & Gas sector and solution vendors who are responsible for planning, managing, optimization and maintenance of Transmission Network and systems
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Pathloss V Main Features
- General Program Organization
- Over view of Pathloss V Modules
- Terrain Data and Terrain databases
- Basic Procedure to Create a Terrain profile
- Geographic Defaults
- Datum Selection
- Ellipsoid Selection
- Latitude Longitude Formats
- Grid Coordinate System
Day 2
- Display Options
- Profile Printing Options
- Flat Earth
- Curved Earth (Straight axis)
- Creating links
- Summary Module
- Network Module
- Profile Insertion
- Having a digital map
- Inserting manually
- Importing from a Text File
- Antenna Heights Calculations (VHF-UHF Applications)
- Antenna Configuration Setting
- Setting antenna Heights
- Optimizing Antenna Heights
- Setting Clearance Criteria
- Reports (Clearance, Orientation, Antenna height Tradeoff Report)
Day 3
- VHF-UHF Antenna Heights
- Clearance Criteria
- Antenna Height Considerations
- Microwave Worksheet
- Reliability options
- Including the Geoclimatic factor
- Defining rain attenuation
- Equipment definition
- Antenna definition
- Inserting the branching losses
- Choosing the frequency channels
- Copying link data
- Reports
- Diversity
Day 4
- Rain attenuation Calculations
- Rain Models Selection
- Polarization Selection
- Fade Margin
- Meaning of rain error Messages
- Passive Repeaters
- Creating a Passive Repeater
- Propagation reliability Calculations on Passive Repeater
- Diffraction Module
- Overview
- Total Loss Concept
- General Operation of the Diffraction Module
- Pathloss algorithms
- Reflection Module and Reflection Analysis
- Reflective Plan definition
- Dispersion Analysis
- Diversity antenna spacing calculations
- Fresnel Zone tests
- Reports
- Multipath Operation
- Overview
- Variable gradient
- Constant Gradient
- Network Module Overview
- Basic Operation
- Site List Data Imports
- Use of layers
- Link List
- Network Operations
Day 5
- Interference calculation procedure
- Not correlated interferences
- Partially correlated interferences
- Fully correlated interferences
- Co-channel interference
- Adjacent channel interference
- Intensive Class Work using Pathloss Program
- Microwave Antenna heights calculations
- Reflection Analysis Examples
- Diffraction Loss Calculations
