It appears you're connected to the Baldi site. That's probably the only site remaining that still doesn't have MIMO (2-chainz) modems. It only provides service with horizontally polarized signals.

It looks like your modem's setup to receive HPol on ch1. HamWAN typically suggests HPol be wired to ch0, and all our network gear follows that standard:

http://hamwan.org/Standards/Component%20Engineering/Client%20Hardware.html

It makes troubleshooting easier when there's a clear polarity-to-chain mapping.

I'm also not sure why we're still running that sector at 5MHz bandwidth, it should be 10MHz. I've gone ahead and updated the sector's config to be 10MHz. This should provide you with a bit more speed, at the cost of 3dB of signal power, which you can afford given your -66dBm link.

Feel free to run some bandwidth-tests to Baldi-S3.hamwan.net (44.24.240.197) to confirm performance.

PS: The "tx-signal-strength-ch0" is reported back to you from Baldi-S3 (how well it hears you), since Baldi-S3 only has a ch0, even though that's not your tx-ch0, but rather your tx-ch1 that it's measuring. You see how confusing things get when polarities are flipped? :)

--Bart

On 11/1/2019 7:46 PM, Scott Currie wrote:

So, should I be concerned about my ch0 numbers?

-Scott

[ns7c@WA7AUB-Baldi] > /interface wireless monitor 0
status: connected-to-ess
channel: 5880/5/an
wireless-protocol: nv2
tx-rate: 6.5Mbps-5MHz/1S
rx-rate: 13Mbps-5MHz/1S
ssid: HamWAN
bssid: D4:CA:6D:7A:A3:EF
radio-name: N7FSP/Baldi-S3
signal-strength: -66dBm
signal-strength-ch0: -90dBm
signal-strength-ch1: -66dBm
tx-signal-strength: -67dBm
tx-signal-strength-ch0: -67dBm
noise-floor: -101dBm
signal-to-noise: 35dB
tx-ccq: 47%
rx-ccq: 79%
authenticated-clients: 1
current-distance: 31
wds-link: no
bridge: no
routeros-version: 6.41.3
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