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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