Bart: I finally figured out the hamwan map on the home page and found where the "Haystack Radio Antenna Complex" is located by zooming in. Strike my previous question on coordinates. I mapped out the path profile and it looks good. I'll have to wait till the rain clears up and the roof dries to see if I can reach it. Fingers crossed. On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:14 AM Paul Sundquist <psundquist@foxhill.org> wrote:
Haystack was my plan B when I ordered the equipment. I spent a lot of time looking towards Haystack with my binoculars and may have a clear shot from my roof. Visually it appears I can see the gap where Index, WA is located. I can see a valley by observing the mountains on the north side. Further in the distance I can see a glaciated mountain - potentially Glacier Peak.
Do you have the Haystack GPS coordinates? I’ll try aiming it at Haystack next.
Thanks for your advise. Didn’t expect to learn so much about the mountains visible from my house with this endeavor.
-Paul
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:57 PM Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:
If your GPS data is correct, you may also want to try a shot to Haystack. It looks possibly unobstructed to you.
--Bart
On 9/11/2021 10:54 PM, Bart Kus wrote:
I'm not sure what's going wrong, but I can verify that S3.ETiger is running and has 5 clients connected to it. I suspect you might be aiming at the towers on west tiger (47.508761°, -121.984954°) and (47.504856°, -121.971615°) whereas the HamWAN site is on east tiger (47.488172°, -121.946733°). From your picture, you should see a 3rd tower or cluster of towers further towards the right, if that is the case. Google Earth is a good tool to get a sense of the visuals, since it lets you tilt the world.
--Bart
On 9/11/2021 4:58 PM, Paul Sundquist wrote:
New install on Squak Mountain Issaquah and unable to find any signal on Tiger Mountain. I’m 3.5 miles away west and a little north of the tower on Tiger. Clear line of sight. Please validate with the tower picture attached.
Installed the following: MikroTik mANT30 PA parabolic dish antenna 5GHz 30dBi MTAD-5G-30D3-PA Mikrotik BaseBox 5 RB912UAG-5HPnD-OUT 5GHz Outdoor Wireless AP Gigabit USB OSL4
Questions: Q1) Is the antenna tower on the right in the picture the right site? Q2) Is the dish assembled correctly? See picture. Q3) I was watching the signal strength on the routerboard while running "/interface wireless scan 0”. Nothing showed up on the terminal session and no signal strength LED’s lit up. I moved it left to right and adjusted azimuth each time I stopped. Q4) How long should you wait to acquire the signal between each time you move it? Q5) Is there anything like the signal strength tones aiming a DirecTV dish? Q6) Any other ideas. My exported configuration is below and I’ve successfully completed every step listed here: https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configura... <https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%0D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html>
Thanks for your help! -Paul KK7AMW
[admin@KK7AMW-Issaquah] > export # sep/08/2021 16:57:46 by RouterOS 6.48.4 # software id = H1Z0-P9F3 # # model = 912UAG-5HPnD
/interface wireless set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=5ghz-onlyn country=no_country_set disabled=no frequency-mode=superchannel radio-name=KK7AMW/Issaquah-Tiger scan-list=HamWAN ssid=HamWAN \ wireless-protocol=nv2 /interface list add name=WAN add name=LAN /interface wireless channels add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 0 degrees (north)" frequency=5920 list=HamWAN name=Sector1-5 width=5 add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 120 degrees (south-east)" frequency=5900 list=HamWAN name=Sector2-5 width=5 add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 240 degrees (south-west)" frequency=5880 list=HamWAN name=Sector3-5 width=5 add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 0 degrees (north)" frequency=5920 list=HamWAN name=Sector1-10 width=10 add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 120 degrees (south-east)" frequency=5900 list=HamWAN name=Sector2-10 width=10 add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 240 degrees (south-west)" frequency=5880 list=HamWAN name=Sector3-10 width=10 /interface wireless security-profiles set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik /snmp community set [ find default=yes ] addresses=44.24.240.0/20 name=hamwan /system logging action set 3 remote=44.24.244.8 /interface list member add interface=wlan1 list=WAN add list=LAN /ip address add address=192.168.86.53/24 interface=ether1 network=192.168.86.0 /ip dhcp-client add disabled=no interface=wlan1 /ip dns set servers=192.168.86.9 /ip firewall mangle add action=change-mss chain=output new-mss=1378 protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn tcp-mss=!0-1378 add action=change-mss chain=forward new-mss=1378 protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn tcp-mss=!0-1378 /ip route add distance=1 gateway=192.168.86.1 /ip service set telnet disabled=yes set ftp disabled=yes set www disabled=yes set ssh port=222 set api disabled=yes set api-ssl disabled=yes /snmp set contact="#HamWAN-Support on irc.freenode.org" enabled=yes location=47.516944,-122.0452 /system clock set time-zone-name=America/Los_Angeles /system identity set name=KK7AMW-Issaquah /system logging add action=remote topics=info add action=remote topics=warning add action=remote topics=error /system ntp client set enabled=yes primary-ntp=44.24.244.4 secondary-ntp=44.24.245.4 /system routerboard settings set boot-device=try-ethernet-once-then-nand [admin@KK7AMW-Issaquah] >
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