Presented by Ori Widianto @ 2009

Step by step Installation of Pathloss 4.0 :

1. Extract BDE setup and install BDE setup.
2. Run VolumeSerial, choose your drive that will be destination for Pathloss
installation (e.g C:\)
3. Fill on new serial number field by : DC7915D5
4. Push button Change Serial Number
5. Restart your PC
6. Run setup wizard on Pathloss Setup Folder.
7. Copy file on folder Key Initialization (PASSIVE.BIN file) to folder that
Pathloss already installed (e.g C:\PLW40).
8. Restart your PC.
9. Run file plw40_mu.exe (last update for Pathloss) and extract to Pathloss
installation folder.
10. Your Pathloss ready for used
How To Operate Pathloss

PATHLOSS program is full Microwave Network design
software.
For our work we shall use PATHLOSS for the following:

a) Make Path Profile to find antenna height in each station
b) Make Network Configuration
c) Calculate Link Budget to find Antenna diameters , RX level & Link
Availability
Necessary Data for Microwave Network Design &
how to place it in your PATHLOSS Program
The followings data must be placed in PATHLOSS program folder to be
able to use the program as a full Microwave system Planner.

1. RAIN file
This folder contents Rain data for each area of the world according
to 4 standards (Canada, Crane, Crane_96 & ITU). Usually we work
according to ITU standard (ITU-R-P.530-7/8)
THIS DATA WILL AUTOMATICALLY PLACED IN PATHLOSS FOLDER AFTER PROGRAM SET
UP


2. Equipment File
This folder contents 4 folders but for our Microwave design we just
use 2 folders as the followings:
a. MAS which contents Microwave Antenna Data for different Antenna
Manufacturer (Andrew , RFS , ERICSSON , ..)
b. MRS which contents Microwave Radio Data for different
Manufacturers.

3. Contour map database

How To Set Contour Map Database

In Pathloss, we can use some contour map database to generate path
Profile.
Please note, this contour map database just only for reference, we
have to verification the actual condition by doing path survey.

The common contour map database are SRTM (Shuttle Radar
Topography Mission) and GTopo30, but in this case we will use
SRTM Database due to it has high accuracy than GTopo30.

The contour map database SRTM is free and could be download from :
ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm


To set the contour map database, please follow the following steps :

1. Create a folder in your hard drive, name it with SRTM or another
name.
2. Copy the SRTM file (file name.hgt)
3. Run Pathloss, click Configure and the select Terrain Database












Fig. 1

4. On Configure Terrain Database window, choose Primary menu and
select SRTM.






Fig. 2

5. Select Setup Primary, then select File -> BIL-HDR-BLW
6. Choose the folder of SRTM data, select the SRTM data and then
click Open.
7. The contour map database already set to your Pathloss


















Fig. 3
Make Path Profile
To make Path Profile for one hop, please follow the following steps :
1. Run Pathloss
2. Enter site name and site coordinate on each column









Fig. 4
3. Click Module and then select Terrain Data
4. Then, click Operations and select Generate Profile
(note: we have to set up the contour database before do this
step)
5. The result will shown as figure below













Fig 5


6. To set obstacle (building or tree), click on structure column, and
choose the menu Single Structure or Range of Structures
5. Choose the type of obstacle (building or tree) and set the height of
obstacle (in meter). It shown below.












Fig 6

Set Antenna Height
After we make the path profile, the next step we have to set the
antenna height to check the LOS condition.
1. Click on Module menu and choose Antenna Heights.
2. We can set the antenna height manually or optimize it automatically.
3. If we set the heights manually, we have to click the antenna
heights menu on the left/right top side and input the parameter.
4. To optimize the antenna heights automatically, just click the Optimize
icon on the top side. See Fig. 7
5. Click on Module and select Print Profile to see the result.
We can see the antenna heights are LOS or not. See Fig. 8












Fig 7
To set Antenna
Height
To optimize
Antenna Height









Fig. 8
Link Budget Calculation
After we already decided antenna heights for each link we should
calculate link budget for each link to find antenna diameter, link RX &
Availability as the following steps :
1. Go to Worksheets from Modules menu or by pressing ctrl W.
You get work sheet page as shown in Fig. 9









Fig.9


2. Enter Point frequency & polarization at each site by pressing on Ch.
Then click OK As shown in Fig. 10













Fig.10

3. Select Radio Equipment type by clicking on TR you will get Radio
Equipment page as shown in Fig. 11















Fig. 11

4. Click on Code Index then New Index. Go to your pathloss folder
Equipment MRS NEC (where you placed NEC equipment folder)
as shown in Fig. 12













Fig. 12

5. Select your radio according to Type (3000S , Pasolink , Pasolink+)
Frequency band (7G , 8G , 11G, .) Modulation (16 QAM , 32
QAM , 128QAM,.) Capacity (PDH x E1 , STM-0 , STM-1) then
click Both to set same Radio for both stations then Press OK as
shown in Fig. 13










Fig. 13

6. Set Branching Circuit or Hybrid Loss by clicking on its Symbol
(above TR) then press OK as shown in Fig. 14













Fig. 16


7. Enter Feeder Data & connection losses by pressing on Wave Guide
symbol then press OK as shown in Fig. 15













Fig. 15

8. Select antenna type for each station by clicking on antenna symbol
then press as shown in Fig. 16













Fig. 16


9. Press on Code Index then New Index then brows for pathloss folder
(where you placed it) Equipment MAS Antenna manufacturer
(Andrew, RFS, ..) Frequency Range (102-132 , 122 132 , 142
153 , .) then press OK as shown in Fig. 17











Fig. 17

10. Select antenna for site 1 & press on Site 1, select antenna for site 2
& press Site 2 or in case of both sites have same antenna press on
Both. The press Close OK as shown in Fig. 18












Fig. 18

11. Set Reliability Method
In worksheet page go to Operation Menu Reliability Methods
Set Reliability criteria as per shown in Fig. 19 for SDH or as Project
& Customer requirement & press OK

12. Set of Rain factor
Press on Rain symbol select ITU-R-P-530. 7/8 press Load Rain
File Select Rain area according to ITU-530 Map Fig. 21 (Rain
Files are placed in Pathloss folder Rain) Press Close as per
shown in Fig. 20












Fig. 20

Fig. 21
For Indonesia
Area, we use
Rain area P
13. Set Geoclimatic Factor
Press on the Ground Symbol (as shown in Fig. 22) Set
Geoclimatic Factor according to ITU-R-P-453 as Shown in Fig. 23)













Fig. 22

Ground
Symbol








Fig. 23
14. Make sure of either our Path Calculation is correct or we need to
revise again.
To do that please check the followings
- Make sure that your worksheet page has Green Correct sign in
right bottom of screen. If it is wrong sign that's mean there are some
data mistake
- Have a look to RX Signal, Fade Margin & (Annual Availability with
rain) Percentage as per shown in Fig. 24
- If any of (RX, Margin, Availability) is less than the required to meet
the spec. & recommendations. You have to increase antenna
diameter or add Space Diversity Radio to reach to the required
specification.

Green
Correct
Sign
Fig. 24
15. After finish of path calculations go to Report Menu in Worksheet
page , select Full Report. You will get full path calculation report as
Fig. 25. You can copy it to Word or Excel sheet & save it for
reference & submitting with your survey report

Waihaong DCS AY.Patty Ex Halong
Elevation (m) 7.07 11.35
Latitude 03 41 55.20 S 03 41 44.01 S
Longitude 128 10 32.30 E 128 10 45.99 E
True azimuth () 50.87 230.87
Vertical angle () 0.45 -0.45
Antenna model VHLP2-220 VHLP2-220
Antenna height (m) 40.00 40.00
Antenna gain (dBi) 40.10 40.10
TX loss (dB) 0.00 0.00
RX loss (dB) 0.00 0.00
Frequency (MHz) 22799.00
Polarization Vertical
Path length (km) 0.54
Free space loss (dB) 114.35
Atmospheric absorption loss (dB) 0.11
Net path loss (dB) 34.25 34.25
Radio model PASOLINK 23G 8MB (V3) PASOLINK 23G 8MB (V3)
TX power (watts) 0.20 0.20
TX power (dBm) 23.00 23.00
EIRP (dBm) 63.10 63.10
TX Channels 22799.0000V 22799.0000V
RX threshold criteria BER 10-6 BER 10-6
RX threshold level (dBm) -85.00 -85.00
RX signal (dBm) -11.25 -11.25
Thermal fade margin (dB) 73.75 73.75
Geoclimatic factor 5.59E-06
Path inclination (mr) 7.85
Average annual temperature (C) 30.00
Worst month - multipath (%) 100.00000 100.00000
(sec) 6.23e-10 6.23e-10
Annual - multipath (%) 100.00000 100.00000
(sec) 2.81e-09 2.81e-09
(% - sec) 100.00000 - 0.00
Rain region ITU Region P
0.01% rain rate (mm/hr) 145.00
Flat fade margin - rain (dB) 73.75
Rain rate (mm/hr) 2467.42
Rain attenuation (dB) 73.75
Annual rain (%-sec) 100.00000 - 0.00
Annual multipath + rain (%-sec) 100.00000 - 0.00
Thu, Apr 16 2009
Reliability Method - ITU-R P.530-7/8
Rain - ITU-R P530-7
Fig. 25