Thursday, March 6, 2008

Getting started in Radio Mobile



Related my link Radio Mobile for easy site survey now we try how to start the radio mobile.
Radio Mobile is a fantastic program for predicting links and radio coverage. However, it does take some time to get to know and the user documentation is not the best! So here is the G8GTZ how to get started guide.
Downloading the program
The program is located at http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html.
Go to download page and you need to download and install the following:
1) Visual Basic Runtime service pack.
2) Zip file containing Radio Mobile executables,
3) Zip file containing Radio Mobile supplement File
4) File jpeglib.zip to be able to produce JPEGs as well as bit maps.
Run the Visual Basic Runtime service pack and unzip the program and other zips in to the same directory. You can't use it yet as you need the map data!

Get the mapping data
Go to the "Where to get elevation data" page on the Radio Mobile site and use the link to the NIMA website, to get the DTEDs mapping data file. http://geoengine.nima.mil/
This site is a bit unfriendly and slow to use but in the bottom frame enter "London" and "UK" (or your capital city and country if not in the UK) and press "go". This will get you roughly in the right area for your first download - you are bound to come back for more!
When the site has located the area, click on the download tab select "windows" and "DTED" and follow the instructions. You will end up with a DTED Zip file being downloaded.
Copy the DTED zip file in to a new directory under the main program directory called something like c:radiomobile\data. Double click on it to unzip it and extract the unzipped files in to the same directory. It will create 2 directories called dted and text and a file called dmed.
If you download additional DTEDs, extract them in to the same directory - it doesn't seem to matter about overwriting the files that are common - it just adds some new data.
You are now ready to run Radio Mobile!
reference :
cplus.org

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