Cited answers
Answers from your own manuals, cited to the page.
Load the service manuals, alignment procedures and bulletins your operation already owns, and every tech can ask them the way they would ask a senior engineer. Each answer names the document and page it came from, so it can be checked before anyone touches a radio.
The one rule
No citation, no answer.
Sentinel RF reads from what your operation actually owns, never from memory of what a radio might do. When the library does not cover a question, it says so instead of producing a plausible number.
Cited to the source
Every factual answer points to the exact document and page it came from, so a second-year tech can open the manual and confirm it before touching the bench.
Your library plus vetted references
Answers draw on the manuals, alignment procedures, and bulletins you upload, alongside a shared library of vetted references: FCC rules and band plans, TIA and public-safety engineering references, and, with the publishers' permission, the NENA and APCO standards a dispatch-center or public-safety system integrator works against.
Attach a PDF or a log to the question
Drop a spec sheet, a bulletin, a coordination letter, or a radio programming export printed to PDF straight into the chat and ask about it. Sentinel RF reads the text page by page for that conversation only, so you can ask which zone carries a talkgroup or what the squelch setting is on channel 12 without loading the file into your library. Text logs work the same way, which is how a tech diagnoses a rekeying radio from its log without pasting it. For a full manual, upload it to Documents instead so every page is indexed and citable.
It tells you when it doesn't know
If the library doesn't cover the question, Sentinel RF says so rather than inventing a spec. It never answers a numeric spec or a procedure from memory.
Senior judgment, safety first
The experience is a senior RF engineer and master bench tech mentoring your team: practical, plain-spoken, and safety-conscious about RF exposure, tower work, and high voltage.
Asks instead of guessing
When it needs a measurement you haven't given it, it asks for the reading rather than assuming one, and it defers life-safety and public-safety system design to a licensed engineer.
Verify-against-revision reminders
Tune-up values always carry a reminder to check against the service manual revision for your serial range, the way a careful senior tech would.
Your library
A library that loads fast and keeps itself current.
Get your operation's knowledge in quickly, keep it fresh without babysitting, and read it without leaving the app.
Drag-and-drop bulk upload
Drop in a stack of PDFs or Windows Help files at once and watch live processing status as each document is read, structured, and indexed.
In-app document viewer
Open the source document to the cited page, or a help file to the cited topic, without leaving Sentinel RF, so checking an answer takes seconds.
Programming software help files
Upload a Windows Help file (.chm) from a radio programming application the same way you would a PDF. Sentinel RF reads its contents tree for structure, indexes every topic, and cites answers back to the exact topic, which opens in the app with its links working. The programming tree stops being knowledge that lives only with the tech who set it up.
Email-in connector
Every operation gets a private ingest address. Forward a manufacturer bulletin once, set a mail rule, and new documents flow into your library automatically.
Deduplicated and announced
Ingested documents are deduplicated against what you already hold, and your admin is notified whenever something new is added.
A shared reference corpus
A curated reference library ships with every account, so useful ground exists on day one, before you upload a thing: FCC rules and band plans, Stolz-authored engineering guides, and, with the publishers' permission, the NENA and APCO standards a dispatch center or public-safety integrator works against.
Watched-folder syncRoadmap
Point Sentinel RF at a Google Drive or OneDrive folder and have new files ingested automatically. On the roadmap, not yet available.
What it will not do.
The limits are part of the product, stated where you can see them.
- Answer a numeric spec or a procedure from memory. If no retrieved page supports it, you are told so.
- Guess a measurement it needs. It asks for the reading instead.
- Stand in for licensed engineering review on a life-safety or public-safety system design.
- Ask for, store or use your manufacturer-portal credentials. Documents come in through channels your operation controls: upload, and the email-in address.
- Share your documents with another operation, or use them to train a model.
How documents are isolated and handled is set out on the security page.
Keep reading
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RF calculators
Site intermod, short spacing, AM protection, shared-site exposure and desense, Fresnel zones, coax loss, ERP and the small stuff. Five of them run free on this site.
FCC license search
A full, weekly-refreshed copy of ULS and the antenna structure register, with leases and market licenses included, searchable by callsign, licensee, FRN, frequency or area.
License monitoring
Watch lists for licenses and towers, lighting-outage alerts from the FAA feed, and area watches for new towers and licenses near you.
See it on your own service manual.
Start a trial, load a manual, and ask a real question from your bench. If it does not earn its seat, cancel anytime.