Training

RF & Microwave Coming soon

Microwave Link Design & Path Planning

For the integrators, engineers and technicians who design, license, install and commission point-to-point microwave links in Australia. Line of sight over a refracting Earth, Fresnel clearance and the ITU-R height rule, the link budget against ETSI receiver limits, multipath and rain fading with the ITU-R climate maps for Australian places, availability and error performance objectives with adaptive modulation, RALI FX 3 bands, coordination and the apparatus licence, interference at a hub, path data and surveys, installation, alignment, commissioning and fault finding, worked end to end on a real design. With a path profile, a link budget, a fading and availability calculator, a hub interference check, a fault finder and a tower walk.

Level
Intermediate to Advanced
Delivery
Self-paced online
Duration
Self-paced, about 7 hours

In development

This course is being written. Register your interest and we will let you know when it is released, including early access for engineering teams.

How it works

  1. Read each unit at your own pace, on any device. Progress is saved to your account.
  2. Answer the graded questions. You can re-sit any unit, and your best attempt counts.
  3. Pass the module and a certificate of completion is issued with a verifiable serial.

This is professional development, not a nationally recognised qualification. noIM₃ is not a registered training organisation.