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Last Updated:  June 29, 2007
Single Site Coverage Analysis
Coverage Rate
TCS Consultants, Inc. produces single site coverage analysis at extremely competitive rates. TCS has been performing and perfecting coverage predictions for over 23 years. We consider our analysis as accurate as any available on the market today costing tens of thousands of dollars more. Due to advancements in digital imaging and electronic document management, TCS can provide coverage analysis on any mapping program that prints to scale. From Microsoft® Streets™ to Delorme XMap™, TCS can create and deliver desktop publishing quality coverage documents right to your email address.

$150.00 USD per plot
$10.00 USD / remote

Electronic Delivery in
Adobe® PDF™ Format

Composite or Multi-Site Coverage Maps
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TCS Consultants, Inc. can provide, at fractional costs of competitors, composite or multi-site coverage predictions showing city, county, state, or even country wide coverage. Whether the need is to see how a telemetry system will cover a gas or oil pipeline or an 800 MHz trunked radio system covers a county, TCS has the tools and expertise to accomplish accurate and detailed predictions. TCS Consultants, Inc. has the desktop publishing expertise to customize display outputs to your specific needs. No longer do you get a coverage prediction that has only a county outline or major cities. TCS can make your maps as detailed or simple as you require.

Applications and Limitations
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TCS has the capability to produce coverage analysis in frequencies ranging from KHz to GHz. Because higher frequencies are more affected by vegetation, UN-II Band frequencies and ISM frequencies are normally not predictable. Because the systems do not have spot-level vegetation information, these system are forced to assume that the entire area is covered in certain density vegetation or none. This does not allow for accurate prediction and requires analysis software costing tens of thousands of dollars. Even then, the software is very inconsistent and provides inaccurate and, often misleading, coverage predictions. For example, a 5.8 GHz omni-directional system may communicate up to 10 miles if there is LOS (Line Of Sight), but the same system will talk only 1 mile through medium vegetation (if that). Because vegetation is rarely consistent, these predictions are seldom accurate.