Good to hear about the signal at your location! I kinda thought LoS from there would be more than -69dBm though. Gold-S2 is also a MIMO (dual polarity) sector, so you can also look at QRT-5 (11n version only!), or try rotating your single polarity antennas 90 degrees to see if the other polarity works better for you. --Bart On 1/16/2016 9:49 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
Evening Dan,
Sounds like you had some good luck today! In general I don’t think the versions should matter all too much, I haven’t see any reports of issues with getting a DHCP lease over version differences, though S2 at gold is running 6.32.3. Since you upgraded, but didn’t re-evaluate the configuration, maybe there’s something funky in the config that happened with the update that made it not grab an IP. I’d double check there.
Nigel
On Jan 16, 2016, at 18:41, Daniel Ransom <danra995@yahoo.com <mailto:danra995@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Tom. Here is a status update on my efforts at accessing the Gold Mountain HamWAN. I went out with my two MikroTik Metal 5SHPn transceiver modems, one of my dishes, and a sector antenna this morning. I tested from the corner of E Collins Road and Babydoll Rd, at 47.548349, -122.5939, here in east Port Orchard. From this location I can see the flashing white beacon on Gold Mountain.
I get a good signal on the mesh dish: -69 dBm. The vertically polarized sector antenna (SA58-90-17-WB) has 10 dB less signal, but the modem will "associate" with the network. Pointing is not critical--I've got about 15 degrees each way, a 30-degree sweep where I have reasonable signal (around -80 dBm). This is at ground level. It should work when I hoist it into the trees behind my house.
I have two modems; one has a broken back-cover latch and is on v6.12. It associates well, even on the sector antenna. Unfortunately, I can't seal the back connection because of the broken latch.
My other, water-resistant modem I updated from v6.12 to v6.32.3. I did not do a full reset when updating the client configuration from the HamWAN website. I could not get this one to acquire an IP address from the network, even on the dish antenna. I went back to my hamshack (I was wet and tired and water was fritzing my laptop keyboard!). I reset and reloaded this modem to try again tomorrow. Does RouterOS firmware matter?
When I put the sector antenna/modem into the tree I will use a rope on top from which to hang the combination antenna/modem, and two ropes at the bottom of the sector antenna (one on each left and right side) to steer the antenna. I have shielded, outdoor CAT6 cable (Ubiquity ToughCable Carrier) as a downlead. We're hams, we experiment!
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