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Statistical Range Analysis in RF Systems: the "Range Fallacy"
You read every paper you could get your hands on to do with propagation and path loss at the frequency you're using, and you carefully included all the known (and measured) losses, antenna gains, power outputs and sensitivities in a detailed link budget. A few days later the marketing dept arrives at your office: "You said the range would be 5 meters but we tried it at that distance and we could make it fail." What has gone wrong?

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