Meaning of last digit of "%CSQ: 99, 99, 0"
William Kenworthy
billk at iinet.net.au
Sun Jan 25 11:38:04 CET 2009
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 12:20 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> writes:
> > Does anyone have an idea what the meaning of the last digit is?
> >
> > (watch screen wrap :)
> > Feb 1 09:11:42 om-gta02 user.notice root: AtChat : N : "%CSQ: 99, 99,
> > 0"
> >
> > The first 99 is signal strength (99=unknown), second is BER
> > (99=undetectable) but all the guides Ive looked at dont mention the
> > third - so far I have seen, 0, 1 and 2 there.
>
> 8.5 Signal quality +CSQ
>
> Table 36: +CSQ action command syntax
>
> |Command |Possible response(s) |
> |+CSQ |+CSQ: <rssi>,<ber> |
> | |+CME ERROR: <err> |
> |+CSQ=? |+CSQ: (list of supported <rssi>s),(list of |
> | |supported <ber>s) |
>
>
> Description
>
> Execution command returns received signal strength indication <rssi> and
> channel bit error rate <ber> from the ME. Refer subclause 9.2 for possible
> <err> values.
>
> Test command returns values supported by the TA as compound values.
>
>
> Defined values
>
> <rssi>:
> 0 -113 dBm or less
> 1 -111 dBm
> 2...30 -109... -53 dBm
> 31 -51 dBm or greater
> 99 not known or not detectable
>
> <ber> (in percent):
> 0...7 as RXQUAL values in the table in GSM 05.08 [20] subclause 8.2.4
> 99 not known or not detectable
>
> Implementation
>
> Optional.
>
Yes, thats the first two which I already gave, but whats the third (the
zero on the end, which may also be a 1 or 2)?
BillK
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