The 3G4G Blog: Antenna height and coverage

Thursday 7 July 2011

From a presentation by Ed Candy of '3' in FWIC.

Self explanatory.

Jean-Marc Liotier said...: 10% additional radius doubles cell coverage ? I'm afraid that 2*pi*r^2 <> pi*(1.1*r)^2

Or is that concept of "coverage" different from a simple area calculation ?; 7 July 2011 at 10:17
Zahid Ghadialy said...: Interesting point. Not sure about the answer though.; 7 July 2011 at 10:58
Anonymous said...: Gents,

Double height = 4dB gain (not 4x pwr.)

Double power = ~20% radius increase
~20% radius increase = ~40% area increase.

Cheers,
Andre; 11 September 2011 at 03:00