Performance analysis of empirical path loss models in VHF & UHF bands

In this work, signal path loss prediction from nine different empirical path loss models were statistically compared with those measured from four television transmitters along five routes that span through urban and rural environments of Osun State, Nigeria. In this respect, results obtained show that both Hata and Davidson prediction models provide best fit prediction consistently along the five measurement routes with 90% to 98% prediction accuracy, Ilorin, CCIR, Cost 231, Ericsson 9999 and ECC-33 show prediction accuracy within the range of 65% to 80% while SUI and Okumura models offer prediction accuracy within the range of 15% to 21%. Generally the results show that Davidson and Hata models have better results in all the five routes examined. SUI and Okumura models show the least performance results.