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SPIRIT1 link budget

angeletti2
Associate II

Good afternoon,

I'm developing a low power radio stack based on SPIRIT1. I encountered a strange behavior in the radio, using the SPIRIT1_Library from ST. I positioned two board within 5cm between each other and using the function "SpiritQiGetRssi" I cannot get more then -20dbm at reception. The module I'm using is SPSGRF-868 (chip antenna version) with 10dbm output power, FSK, 38400 baudrate, 100k channel space, 20k freq dev, 100k bandwidth. I tried with different combination but still the receiving power seems to low to me. I expected at least something near -5dbm.

Anyway, moving the modules 50cm apart further drop the receiving RSSI to -79dbm, and after less than 10m the signal reaches -90dbm.

Any suggestion or possibly a fix?

Regards,

Fabio

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RWrig.1
Associate

Hello Fabio, was there a resolution to this issue. Were you able to increase the performance of the antenna.

We are experiencing a similar issue.

Thanks

Rob