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Old December 30th 05, 12:08 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Fry
 
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Default converting dBm to uV/m

"Ron J" wrote
I'm still skeptical about this formula:
Field Strength (uV/m) = 10 ^ ( (107 - |dBm| ) / 20 )
Is this valid? I saw this formula somewhere and jotted it down.

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uV/m = 10^[(dBm - G + 20*log(F) + L +75)/20]

where

dBm = signal level at receiver input in dB with respect to 1 mW
G = receiving antenna gain in dBd
L = line loss in decibels
F = Frequency in MHz

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