RF & Wireless — question 6 of 10
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You're deploying a LoRa sensor node: transmit power is +14 dBm, both the transmit and receive antennas have 2 dBi gain, the calculated free-space path loss at the deployment range is 145 dB, and the receiver sensitivity is -130 dBm. Your design requirement is at least 10 dB of fade margin. Compute whether this link closes, and by how much margin you're over or under the requirement.
This one resolves to a number. Give the value in the field below and your reasoning in the box — the number is checked exactly, by arithmetic.