[TowerTalk] planning for antennas and noise

[jimlux]

Coleman's 2002 paper is (legitimately) free on line..
Anyone who's looking at antenna pattern models in the vertical and 
horizontal planes should take a look at it. A multitude of links are 
available to various copies

https://hekyll.services.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/2475/1/hdl_2475.pdf


https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2000RS002567

https://doi.org/10.1029/2000RS002567



In the 20 years since he did this work, ionospheric models (and probably 
lightning databases) have gotten better..  One could probably create a 
tool to run it for any station location (perhaps using VOACAP as a good 
starting point for the propagation model)

VOACAP uses a "climatological" ionosphere model and runs a 
straightforward propagation model against that - something like Pharlap 
is a higher precision model that can ingest a higher quality ionosphere 
model and/or data.