Viper User
Manual (001-5008-000 Rev6)
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C
RSSI measured at the source Viper for the last message received from the
destination Viper. This is also referred to as the Local RSSI. The value displayed
shall be interpreted as shown in Table 5.2.
D
RSSI measured at the destination Viper for the last message received from the
source Viper. This is also referred to as the Remote RSSI. The value displayed
shall be interpreted as shown in Table 5.2.
E
Radio/antenna forward power measured in 10ths of watts at the source Viper. A
value of 51 shall be interpreted as 5.1W.
F
Radio/antenna reverse power measured in 10ths of watts at the source Viper. A
value of 2 shall be interpreted as 0.2W.
G
PER measured at the source. This is calculated as the percentage of packets
rejected due to an invalid header/checksum over the total number of packets
received. To fit a small unsigned integer, this value is multiplied by 1000 and its
max value limited at 255. A reading of 2 means 0.002% of packets were rejected.
Table 5.2 – Online Diagnostics RSSI Display
VALUE
RSSI
NOTES
0
NA
The RSSI Value is not Available
1 > -60.25 dBm
The RSSI Value is greater than –60.25 dBm
20 -65.00
dBm
255 < -123.75 dBm RSSI is less than –123.75 dBm
X
RSSI = -60 – (X * 0.25), for X not equal to 0
