 Hello and thank you for watching this is Tossos with RF Elements And I'm going to be taking you through a kind of quick start guide on how to use TowerCoverage.com with our antennas. Now TowerCoverage.com is a third-party website It's not our site or our tool But it's a site that allows you to create coverage maps for your service area And they have multiple vendors antennas listed that you can build your site and see what kind of coverage you'd get with Many different types of antennas. So today we're going to be doing our 30-degree symmetrical horn antenna So once you're logged into the website The first thing you need to do is you need to create a tower site location So we go to new and sites And here you have a couple of options once you're inside. So you have to give it a site name Put in the latitude or longitude to GPS coordinates Or if you want you can simply put in an address or drop a pin on the map, right? So I like using the salt flats because it's again very flat and no obstructions and that shows you Again a very clear picture of what the antenna pattern looks like so So we'll put salt flats in there hit enter And you can see it quickly takes us out to the salt flats or in that region And all we have to do now is just kind of click on the map where we want it to be and it populates GPS coordinates So we need to give it a site name So we'll call it salt flats and here we have to put the actual Antenna height or where you know the tower height. So we'll just say Roughly doing a hundred and fifty foot tower. So now you click on create new sites and if you go back to your dashboard You should see now that the salt flats site has been created and it's ready to use So once you've created your site, you now have to create your coverage map. So we'll go to new coverages and Here's the work area for that. So again, there's there's a lot of bells and whistles here We're just gonna go through the basic settings. So you don't have to use a radio system. We just leave that blank So we'll give this map a name and we'll call it SF 30 tests because we're testing our 30 degree horn Here's where we pick the tower site location, which we just created So we'll go look in the list here and we see salt flats So we'll pick it you can see that the antenna height is auto populated from when we created the site So 46 meters is a hundred and fifty feet roughly The next part is the receiving station. So from this area here, we have to put what the average client height will be So we'll just say that the average height for your CPE is roughly 30 feet Go here 30 feet and then we have to put in the antenna gain So we'll say it's roughly at 24 DB antenna gain with the roughly half a DB of Loss due to connectors or pigtails The next part is the transmission site transmitter info. So this is pretty much the the most important part of the settings here So we go choose antenna type and again, you can see tower coverage has many different Manufacturers antennas listed. So we'll just go to RF elements right now And here you see a complete list of our horn antennas as well as our sector carrier class antennas Which we'll probably do a video of next but we're going to pick the SHTP 530 which is the symmetrical horn twist port 5 gigahertz 30 degree antenna So we choose that you see it's in the list The next thing you have to do is you need to Tell the system where the antenna is pointing, right? So we'll just leave it at zero degrees or do north Beam filter is the next thing that you want to look at again. This should be auto populated It's a 30 degree horn. So the beam width should be 30 degrees if this number is different or missing Make sure you add it in there We're not going to employ any down tilt because we're just looking for a basic map But we need to put the antenna gain. So this particular antenna happens to be 18 DB. So we'll just do that Then the next part is frequency again. This is very important to the default is 2400 megahertz or 2.4 gigahertz You can see here. There's a large large list of Selectable channels. We'll just go in the upper uniband here. We'll pick 5700 And we'll pick a channel like 5800 Okay Then the next thing is the transmit power of your radio. So we'll say it's roughly a 29 DB output power and again, there's a Receive sorry a transmit line loss again due to connectors and pigtails. We'll just leave it at the default of 0.5 Okay, the last part is the system performance This is the maximum the maximum received signal that you would want to see right? So you're not going to see anything that's worse than an egg 70. Let's say The next part that I like to adjust here is the strong signal margin and you'll see this later in a coverage map It's kind of transition point or the difference between of 5 DB from the maximum Signal level of next 70. We'll make this five So you'll see the difference between next 70 and next 65 in the coverage map Next thing is distance again 20 kilometers is the default. We can leave it at that That's roughly 10 miles. So that should be good at that point These are all the the basic things that need to be done to get your basic coverage map so we click update coverage and Then it brings us back out to our dashboard and if we refresh the screen here We can see that our sh 30 test coverage map is now being created. It's processing So this process is pretty quick Again tower coverage comm is a pretty powerful website. It usually is done in less than a minute So it doesn't take very long. We'll try and refresh it here And it's still processing. So we'll just wait a little bit longer and it should be done here any second now And we're still waiting Maybe I should play some background music while we wait, but usually doesn't take long. So here we go Now we see that our salt flat 30 test coverage map is now complete. So if we click on it We'll actually see the map So here you go. This is the coverage map for our 30 degree Antenna again, the red to green is that 5 dB of difference So anywhere within the green should be 65 next 65 or better anything in the red should be neg 72 neg 65 and anything outside of that area is is Worst in eggs 70 right so again, you have the option to do it. You can see very clean antenna very Solid 30 degree beam no side lobes. So it's a very very nice performing antenna. So the next thing that we'll do is We'll pop a point on this map over here and we'll look at the actual Path for this. So if we do path analysis, we just put in some generic site information here hit save It will generate a new map and show you the path calculation So for that particular antenna again at the end of its coverage area is roughly about eight miles So seven point seven five miles and you can expect to see an estimated at neg 70 signal. So If we change that now and we pop it here in the green we should see neg 65 or better Here we go. So again, that's at roughly 4.2 miles away from the antenna and you could see that the link is neg 64.7 or better. So Again, that's the basic how to for using tower coverage calm Again, there's a lot of a lot of things you can do it's a very powerful site But we just wanted to take you through the quick setup to Try and use our antennas and see how they would cover your area. Thanks again for watching This is Tossos with RF elements and stay tuned for some more videos. Thanks. Have a good day