Going back to v6.13 didn't improve anything, but it did seem to get rid of the occasional variations in voltage (from 13.5v down to 12.8v) that SNMP was reporting to "The Dude" software. So, after letting v6.13 run for couple hours with no improvement, I reinstalled v6.15. Presto! Instant dBm improvement back to my normally observed values. Here are links to SNMP graphs of the drop @9:30am, and the rise at 17:48pm. Of course, you can also see this in Nigel's Cacti reporting, albeit with less horizontal (time) resolution. http://www.ae7q.com/misc/media/5.9GHz/2014-06-13_0940.png http://www.ae7q.com/misc/media/5.9GHz/2014-06-13_1740.png Note that the reported sudden dBm "rise" to -60dBm (the upper limit I've imposed to keep the graph scale reasonable) on two occasions in the second graph, is when I upgraded and then reconfigured the radio (from a cut-&-paste script), and should be ignored. Note that a very similar scenario occurred several months ago, when I upgraded from v6.10 to v6.12. Of course, today is Friday the 13th. Maybe Jason is responsible. -- Dean On 2014-06-13 12:28, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
On 2014-06-13 12:13, Cory (NQ1E) wrote:
Did it rain on those trees you're pointing at around then? :)
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan@ae7q.com <mailto:hamwan@ae7q.com>> wrote:
This morning (well after the update to v6.15 last night) just after 9:30am, I saw a 8dB drop in both TX and RX signal levels, which persist at this time. I did a "reset configuration", which did not solve the problem.
Did anyone do a change at Paine sector 2 around 9:30am?
It's been raining gently all morning. Last night it rained a bit harder, and I saw no significant or unusual variation. I'm going back to v6.13 to see if that changes anything.
The drop was very sudden. I have that antenna connection very well sealed, I thought, and the Ethernet cable runs uphill to get into the eaves. I did a cursory visual check of that this morning.