Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

MopHu — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:19:26 GMT

Hi, How to build a test project used for coded-phy distance testing base on nRF54L15 DK PCA10156.

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

rikhard — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:14:05 GMT

Interesting results. Thank you for conducting these tests. Could someone explain how much data is actually transferred in "Connected" state? I totally understand that receiving packets far away is possible if there is no connectivity but usually the actual data connectivity jeopardizes the link length. Please could you estimate how much data is really transferred in the connected state? I think it's low...

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

amar_d — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 04:59:46 GMT

does coded advertise consume more power?

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

shinglaifs — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:39:58 GMT

I have encounter difficulty running this demo using the coin cell battery as the power source.
I am running on hardware PCA10056 v1.1.0 (2019.12).
I have tried using the precompiled hex non_connected_8dBm and softdevice 6.0.0.
However, i have tried on the two PCA10056 i have and they do not power up using the battery. Only by USB power bank.
I have verified it is not a battery issue: Using the same hardware and battery, i am able to use the Battery to power the board using the BLE plinky example.
I have read some other thread that disabling UART could make the board run on the coin cell battery. However, i am very new to the embedded device development and my first time to work with Nordic DK. I can use some guidelines on how to disable UART for the battery to run if that is the solution.
Thank you.

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

usman — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:28:16 GMT

Hi Susheel I want to ask using 125 kbps when you achieved distance of 1300 meter what was the PER (packet error rate) on that time. did you consider that as well or not. thanks

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

usman — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:26:11 GMT

Hi Susheel

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

DmitryB — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:26:15 GMT

Hello. How does the use of internal RC or external XTAL source clock affect distance?

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

Brian Kim — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:08:57 GMT

SIG introduced several papers for long range test result by three different companies. They are very practical and have various conditions. (the three companies tested it with nRF52840).

You can find them below:

https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-resources/?types=paper

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

wozix — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:07:21 GMT

Can this work with Engineering C (Rev C) and SDK 16 with S140 V 7.0.1?

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

ApoorvaS — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:20:02 GMT

Hello,

I want to test the range of Adafruit nRF52840 express feather(BLE 5.0) board. I did the setup on arduino IDE. My question is can we perform the above mentioned test using arduino ide on adafruit nRF52840 express feather?

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

lzj — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 01:34:35 GMT

Will the connection parameters affect the communication distance?Such as conn_sup_time parameter

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

Srichandrahaas — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:37:56 GMT

How to flash a hex file onto nRF52 board?

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

vinaykamble — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:42:32 GMT

Would you have the SES version as well?

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

AmitEdvy — Thu, 23 May 2019 15:31:04 GMT

After the command "config phy coded"- what is the phy of advertising? does the unit advertise in coded phy? 1M? both?
I want to determine what is the phy I establish the link with (the phy the link connection request is passed/received by), and no just the agreed phy *during* the link establishment.

RE: Testing Long Range (Coded PHY) with Nordic solution (It Simply Works)

Thomas Y — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:42:53 GMT

I understand the demo using 2 BLE 5.0 EVK board but what will be the behavior when using an iPhone or an Android phone. Is there an example of transmitting a few bits to and from a Phone ?