Coverage Pro RF
Know where the signal works before anyone climbs the tower.
Coverage Pro RF predicts radio coverage over real terrain for repeaters, base stations and links. Settle the site, the antenna and the height with numbers instead of guesses, and hand the customer or club a map that looks the part.
Written for the radio tech, not the propagation specialist
Coverage Pro RF is a desktop application for land mobile and amateur systems. It speaks the language of the shop: infrastructure and subscriber radios, feedline and duplexer losses, antenna gain in dBi, thresholds in dBm and µV.
Longley-Rice over lidar terrain
The Irregular Terrain Model (ITM 1.4), built from the NTIA reference code. In the US, terrain comes from USGS 3DEP lidar down to 1 m; elsewhere, 30 m data worldwide. Trees and buildings can be added from NLCD land cover.
Talk-out, talk-in or both
Find out whether the subscriber hears the repeater, the repeater hears the subscriber, or both. Most systems are talk-in limited; see it before your users do. Change a radio's power or threshold and the map updates instantly.
About 300 antennas built in
Repeater, base and directional antennas from Telewave, Comprod, Sinclair, dbSpectra, Diamond and more, with published gain per band. Load Planet/MSI or .ant pattern files, model side mounts, and save your own.
Interference studies
Catch interference before it turns into a complaint. Check co- and adjacent-channel stations against a required C/I with an editable rejection table. Get the share of service area affected, each interferer's impact, and a CSV report for the file.
Link analysis
Path verdict both ways, a full link budget, and a terrain profile with earth curvature and the first Fresnel zone. Change an antenna height in the result and everything updates at once.
Map sheets, KMZ and batch maps
Finished presentation sheets with legend, scale and caption. KMZ export drapes the coverage over terrain in Google Earth. Batch maps for a whole list of repeaters from a RepeaterBook CSV, with a gallery page ready for a website.
The tools you'd otherwise do by hand
Aim a sector or link antenna at a town or another site and write the azimuth straight into the station. Measure legs with true and magnetic bearings, draw range rings, and read grid square, ground elevation and bearing under the cursor.
- Your library, every project
- Antennas, infrastructure sites and subscriber radios you save once and use everywhere. Export it to share with another coordinator.
- Import from a spreadsheet
- Bring in sites from CSV. RepeaterBook exports work directly.
- Windows 10 and 11, and Linux
- Native desktop builds, with updates that download in the background. See the system requirements.
Getting a license
Coverage Pro RF needs a license key to run. Each license is issued to a name, and that name appears on every map sheet you make. The maps are yours to use and publish.
- Purchase a license. Pay through the secure checkout.
- Get your key by email. Your license key arrives at the email address you used at checkout.
- Download and activate. Install the latest release from the download page. When Coverage Pro RF first starts, enter your license name and key exactly as they appear in the email.
Questions
- Which computers does it run on?
- Windows 10 and 11, and Linux. There's no Mac version. See the system requirements.
- Do I need an internet connection?
- For terrain downloads, the road and town layers, and updates. County and state outlines work offline.
- Can I publish the maps I make?
- Yes. The maps are yours to use in reports, proposals, club websites and coordination filings.
- How do updates work?
- Coverage Pro RF checks for new versions, downloads them in the background and installs when you're ready. Your library, settings and saved layers are kept.
- Can I share my antennas and sites with someone else?
- Yes. Export your library to a file and they can import it into their copy.
- How many computers can I install it on?
- A license is for one named user. You can install it on the computers you use yourself, like an office desktop and a field laptop. Each additional person needs their own license.
- What if it doesn't work for me?
- If Coverage Pro RF doesn't do what you need, email support within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. See the refund policy.
More questions about terrain data, accuracy, antennas and exports are answered in the full FAQ.