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ljoseph

Post subject: GSM TS power measurements

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:16 pm

Captain

Joined: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:54 am
Posts: 16
Location: Dallas

Hello,

This is regarding the power measurements of GSM based signals.

Suppose I have one GSM carrier with all 8 TS on and each slot has 10W power. Because of the guard period in GSM structure, the actual power read by the power meter will be 0.25 dB low.
So in this case power meter will read 40-0.25=39.75 dBm.
Now consider the case where TS0 has 10 W, TS1->8W, TS3->5W,TS4->3W,Ts5->10WTS6->8W,TS7->9W. In this case what will be the reading of Power meter?

Kirt Blattenberger

Post subject: Re: GSM TS power measurements

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:33 pm

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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm
Posts: 476
Location: Erie, PA

Greetings ljoseph:

I posted a notice about your question on the homepage. You mention specific signal levels in all 8 time slots, but I don't see one listed for TS2.

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ljoseph

Post subject: Re: GSM TS power measurements

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:28 pm

Captain

Joined: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:54 am
Posts: 16
Location: Dallas

Sorry for that TS2==> 10W.

Posted 11/12/2012

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