On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 1:27 PM B.J. Guillot <bj.guillot@gmail.com> wrote:
> For grins, he tried the Seattle sectors  (~40 km? away), and we got a weak connection.  We weren't sure exactly which sector we were hitting (he said there are two it could have been)

It's pretty simple to see which sector you are connected to. Just issue this command:

/interface wireless monitor 0
                  status: connected-to-ess
                 channel: 5900/5/an
       wireless-protocol: nv2
                 tx-rate: 16.2Mbps-5MHz/1S
                 rx-rate: 16.2Mbps-5MHz/1S
                    ssid: HamWAN
                   bssid: E4:8D:8C:F1:6D:22
              radio-name: Gold-S2/K7WAN
         signal-strength: -57dBm
     signal-strength-ch0: -57dBm
      tx-signal-strength: -59dBm
  tx-signal-strength-ch0: -59dBm
  tx-signal-strength-ch1: -75dBm
             noise-floor: -120dBm
         signal-to-noise: 63dB
                  tx-ccq: 93%
                  rx-ccq: 93%
   authenticated-clients: 1
        current-distance: 10
                wds-link: no
                  bridge: no
        routeros-version: 6.41.3
                 last-ip: 169.48.173.167
       current-tx-powers: 6Mbps:31(25/31),9Mbps:31(25/31),12Mbps:31(25/31),18Mbps:31(25/31),24Mbps:31(25/31),36Mbps:29(23/29),48Mbps:29(23/29),54Mbps:27(21/27),HT20-0:29(23/29),HT20-1:29(23/29),HT20-2:29(23/29),
                          HT20-3:29(23/29),HT20-4:29(23/29),HT20-5:27(21/27),HT20-6:27(21/27),HT20-7:26(20/26)
     notify-external-fdb: no

You can see the radio name right there next to the signal strength.

If you can tell me your MAC, I can look you up in the logs to see what sector you connected to.

Tom KD7LXL