Black Box MDR210A-485 manual Application Notes cont

Application Notes (cont.)

			Detectable
Range	Received	Detectable by	by
(meters)	Power	MDR210A-485	Commercial
			Radio
100	-68.526 dBm	YES	YES
500	-82.506 dBm	YES	YES
1000	-88.526 dBm	YES	YES
3000	-92.048 dBm	YES	NO
5000	-102.506 dBm	YES	NO
8000	-106.588 dBm	YES	NO
10000	-108.526 dBm	YES	NO
11265
(7miles)	-109.559 dBm	YES	NO
12000	-110.805 dBm	NO	NO

Since the range doubles every 6dB, the 20dB sensitivity difference in radios corresponds to 2^(20/6) = 10.08 times the range using the MDR210A-485 radio!

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