Seminar Explores Terrain Analysis

July 17, 2013

This two-day seminar provides education on terrain analysis for improving communications systems performance.

Terrain analysis is sometimes related to radio-frequency (RF) issues in communications systems. Fortunately, an engineering seminar set for this coming September 24-25 at the Courtyard Marriot Downtown in Louisville, KY offers insight into how to model different terrain configurations for optimizing communications systems. The seminar is based on the Terrain Analysis Package (TAP™) software from Softwright.

The engineering seminar features two days on designing coverage and path studies for VHF/UHF, paging, land mobile, PCS, cellular, SCADA, microwave, and FM/TV broadcast transmitting facilities. It details how to predict intermodulation (IM) problems, as well as how to overcome them. A number of different mobile and microwave radio system design problems will be used to teach how to apply both the engineering principles and TAP software tools. The seminar costs $1300, but discounts are available.

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Jack Browne | Technical Contributor

Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.