RF coverage maps for Wireless, Wireless Broadband and Broadcast.
RF Safety Signs for Wireless and Broadcast.
Isotrope, LLC incubates innovative initiatives in communications technology. Formed in 2010, Isotrope is the product of a 28-year relationship between two enterprising radio engineering colleagues, David Maxson and Steve Riggs. Their combined knowledge, experience and creativity in wireless and broadcast communications is Isotrope’s catalyst for launching new services. Watch this space for new ideas and commentary .
RFSigns.com
RFSigns.com is the authoritative source for high quality safety signs and markers for radio communications facilities. RFSigns products are standards-compliant and very durable.
RFMaps.com
RFMaps.com democratizes radio/wireless coverage mapping. Users will be able to obtain accurate coverage maps economically. For the first time, users will not have to be rocket scientists (or radio engineers) to produce meaningful and reliable coverage analysis on the RFMaps.com on-line system.
Isotrope Wireless
Offering municipalities & industries total support in design, specification, evaluation & construction of wireless facilities. We assist communities in managing sensible wireless deployment; balancing coverage needs with aesthetic & zoning demands, more.
Isotrope Consulting
Isotrope’s communications engineering team has advised start-ups and settled businesses on system requirements development, protocol design, development and testing of new technologies in radio communications. <examples – EPG project, RBDS protocol for proprietary application, improvement of a digital radio service’s encoding of country identification code within constrained data space, studio and transmission facility design>
Because we know you’re going to ask….
What’s an isotrope?
That’s right, the word looks like “isotope” with an extra “r” in it. Isotrope is a made-up word in English — derived from the characteristic of “isotropy” (n) that indicates something has the same characteristic in all directions. The adjective “isotropic” is applied to such things that have isotropy. (an “isotropic antenna” is endowed with isotropy))
For instance, much of the analysis of the cosmos assumes the universe is isotropic — in other words, no matter which direction the observer looks, the universe has the same characteristics, so that what we learn about galaxies or stars, or the expansion of the universe in one direction, can be assumed to apply in any other direction.
In radio communications, the ideal antenna is an isotropic antenna. It produces (or receives) the same amount of energy in all directions — its antenna pattern is spherical. In the physical world, there are physical constraints that preclude the design of a perfectly isotropic antenna.
In English there is a noun for the characteristic (isotropy) and an corresponding adjective (isotropic)for a thing that has the characteristic, but there is no noun for any thing that has the characteristic. It seemed logical that an isotropic thing could be classified as an “isotrope.” Our ideal antenna, ideal star, and ideal universe are isotropes. Our ideal company, one that gleams with technical creativity, is Isotrope, LLC.
What’s with the odd domain name?
“.IM” is the top level domain assigned to the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. More information about the Isle of Man can be found here. Okay, Okay, but what does that have to do with Isotrope? Someone has camped out on Isotrope.com waiting for somebody to come and buy the domain from them. We like the symmetry of isotrope and “.im”, and in wireless communications, one is often worried about IM, as in Intermodulation Distortion.