Friis Transmission Calculator

Enter transmit power, gains, frequency and distance to get the received power.

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About this calculator

The Friis transmission equation, Pr = Pt·Gt·Gr·(λ/4πd)², relates the power received by an antenna to the transmit power, the transmit and receive antenna gains, the signal's wavelength, and the distance between them in free space, capturing how radiated power spreads out and weakens with the square of distance (and, equivalently, drops as frequency rises for a fixed distance).

RF and wireless communication engineers use it as a first-pass link budget calculation when designing Wi-Fi, satellite, radar and point-to-point microwave links, to check whether a receiver will get enough signal above its noise floor before ever building or testing the hardware.

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