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ljoseph
 Post subject: GSM TS power measurements
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:16 pm 
 
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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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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 
 
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Sorry for that TS2==> 10W.

Posted  11/12/2012