I've thought of it. In order to clear the half-dozen or so houses in the path of Haystack, I would have to install a tower in my back yard; mounting the antenna on the east side of my house wouldn't do, due to the afore-mentioned houses. I've also thought of pointing at other HamWAN cells. Somehow, I have a really good path at 1.2GHz to KB7CNN on East Tiger Mountain: One watt into a 10dB omni-directional antenna does it. The path to the Mt. Baldi site just clears the hills west of East Tiger Mountain by a couple hundred feet (assuming no earth curvature!). Capital Hill is also line-of-sight, except for some really big trees a couple blocks south of me. I also supposedly have line-of-sight to the TV towers on Queen Anne, but since reception of channel 5 (KING-TV) is problematic, I suspect the same trees are a factor there. On 2015-04-05 23:10, Bart Kus wrote:
Have you ever tried pointing @ Haystack?
--Bart
On 4/5/2015 10:41 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
OK, I don't believe any of you cut down any trees on the 5.9GHz path to the SnoCo DEM near Paine field, but *something changed*:
Starting about a week ago, the signal levels have increased about 6dBm. For the past several days I have had more or less a decent connection: status: connected-to-ess band: 5ghz-n-5mhz frequency: 5900MHz wireless-protocol: nv2 tx-rate: 2.2Mbps rx-rate: 1.5Mbps ssid: HamWAN bssid: D4:CA:6D:7A:B8:07 radio-name: Paine-S2 signal-strength: -84dBm signal-strength-ch0: -84dBm tx-signal-strength: -79dBm tx-signal-strength-ch0: -79dBm noise-floor: -118dBm signal-to-noise: 34dB
This is in marked contrast to just two weeks ago, when I couldn't hold a connection at all (as was typical through the entire winter).
Kenny, I thought you told me your connection has been poor lately. Have you checked in the past week?
On 2015-02-17 13:36, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
...
Now, if I can just get a couple of you to cut down some trees (not on my property) in the middle of the night, my appreciation would be unbounded ...
-- Dean
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