Thanks to Scott's efforts we have a photo of the SnoDEM side of the ETiger-SnoDEM link: SnoDEM->ETiger It looks in good shape, and is roughly aimed at the right direction. We also know the top gust @ SnoDEM was 60mph, which is well within the 125mph rating of the gear. We don't have any data yet on ETiger physical condition, but we do have a very strange signal report: ETiger-SnoDEM It has risen from the dead, all by itself!?? Sure wish we had 24/7 night vision video of just what went down @ ETiger. It can't be as boring as water drying out of connectors, since that would take a long time and not exhibit a sharp spike like that @ 1AM. Perhaps a wind gust blew the dish back into position? But that wouldn't account for the very slow rise in signal after the sharp spike. So confused. Theories welcome. On the QueenAnne-Haystack front, I made a config change to the link last night to increase power spectral density by reducing the link's bandwidth to 5MHz. Whatever has affected that link doesn't seem to be changing, and the increased PSD is saving the day: QA-Haystack A far cry from the -60dBm we normally run @ 40MHz, but it's better than a lost link! Using the PTZ cam, this is the shot I can get of the dish hardware on the Haystack side: There is a lot of icing on the cam dome (not water), so it's likely the dish is iced slightly too. It doesn't look like any trees fell on it. I tried to see if trees fell in its path, but the dome is too iced up in that direction to tell. Still waiting to hear about damage on the Queen Anne side. --Bart On 11/18/2015 7:28 AM, Rob Salsgiver wrote:
Yaaayyy redundancy!
Yaaayyy redundancy!
Yaaayyy redundancy!
Oops…
Yaaayyy redundancy!
Yaaayyy redundancy!
Oops…
Yay!
*From:*PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org] *On Behalf Of *Bart Kus *Sent:* Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:33 PM *To:* Puget Sound Data Ring *Subject:* [HamWAN PSDR] Damage report, Mr.Sulu
So, we're taking a beating. This wind+rain storm has caused an outage on our QueenAnne<->Haystack link:
QA-Haystack
It's also taken down our ETiger<->SnoDEM link:
ETiger-SnoDEM
And the Baldi site has lost power for several short periods throughout the day today. There are generators on-site, but the UPS there is dead, so it causes brief outages as power switches over. I'm not sure if we're on generators or not @ Baldi right now, but it's up at least.
Now, even though we're taking this beating, I'm pleased to report that none of these link failures have caused any parts of the network to become disconnected. We are still routing 100% of HamWAN! On the down side, we just burned through all our redundancy, and the next link to go down will cause an outage somewhere.
--Bart
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