SnoDEM (Paine) is well-connected again
Hi All, Nigel and I did a trip today to SnoDEM to re-align a couple of the dishes. We've got nice strong signals now from East Tiger and Haystack going to SnoDEM. After Saturday's Gold Mtn deploy we'll need to take 1 more trip to align a SnoDEM dish to aim back @ Gold Mtn. This should make SnoDEM triple redundant, which is great for an EOC. Things got super sketchy there for a while, as multiple events coincided to wreak havoc on SnoDEM's connectivity: 1) Nigel moved and his uplink was disconnected as a result. 2) The CapitolPark-SnoDEM link faded into the useless signal range. We disabled it since it could hardly pass any packets. 3) A modem died @ Haystack which killed the SnoDEM feed from there. 4) My uplink to SnoDEM got tree-faded into uselessness and was disabled. And that's how a quad-redundant site suddenly became a disconnected site! --Bart
OK, I wondered what happened. Did you work on the sector antennas? As you know (but for lurkers), when I installed my HamWAN node in March 2014, I had a good connection until late July, whereupon it went to zero. At first I thought that this was due to foliage, but when it came back in February 2015, I attributed it to the a huge water tower in the path, and whether it was full of water or not. On schedule, I lost my connection again this July, and have been resigned to not getting it back until early next year, so I haven't been checking it every day. Today I have a solid connection. Not a great connection, but a lot better than zero. On 2015-10-16 00:23, Bart Kus wrote:
Hi All,
Nigel and I did a trip today to SnoDEM to re-align a couple of the dishes. We've got nice strong signals now from East Tiger and Haystack going to SnoDEM. After Saturday's Gold Mtn deploy we'll need to take 1 more trip to align a SnoDEM dish to aim back @ Gold Mtn. This should make SnoDEM triple redundant, which is great for an EOC. Things got super sketchy there for a while, as multiple events coincided to wreak havoc on SnoDEM's connectivity:
1) Nigel moved and his uplink was disconnected as a result. 2) The CapitolPark-SnoDEM link faded into the useless signal range. We disabled it since it could hardly pass any packets. 3) A modem died @ Haystack which killed the SnoDEM feed from there. 4) My uplink to SnoDEM got tree-faded into uselessness and was disabled.
And that's how a quad-redundant site suddenly became a disconnected site!
--Bart
Well, July is about when we installed the ETiger-SnoDEM link. We reconfigured your sector (S2) for the purpose and sent you a notice on July 10th. :) Your sector returned to normal service on Oct 7th. It was a really ugly hack to keep SnoDEM connected to the network. Did you ever try the config change I sent you to try and stay connected to the sector at its new temporary frequency & bandwidth? --Bart On 10/16/2015 12:34 AM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
OK, I wondered what happened. Did you work on the sector antennas?
As you know (but for lurkers), when I installed my HamWAN node in March 2014, I had a good connection until late July, whereupon it went to zero. At first I thought that this was due to foliage, but when it came back in February 2015, I attributed it to the a huge water tower in the path, and whether it was full of water or not.
On schedule, I lost my connection again this July, and have been resigned to not getting it back until early next year, so I haven't been checking it every day.
Today I have a solid connection. Not a great connection, but a lot better than zero.
On 2015-10-16 00:23, Bart Kus wrote:
Hi All,
Nigel and I did a trip today to SnoDEM to re-align a couple of the dishes. We've got nice strong signals now from East Tiger and Haystack going to SnoDEM. After Saturday's Gold Mtn deploy we'll need to take 1 more trip to align a SnoDEM dish to aim back @ Gold Mtn. This should make SnoDEM triple redundant, which is great for an EOC. Things got super sketchy there for a while, as multiple events coincided to wreak havoc on SnoDEM's connectivity:
1) Nigel moved and his uplink was disconnected as a result. 2) The CapitolPark-SnoDEM link faded into the useless signal range. We disabled it since it could hardly pass any packets. 3) A modem died @ Haystack which killed the SnoDEM feed from there. 4) My uplink to SnoDEM got tree-faded into uselessness and was disabled.
And that's how a quad-redundant site suddenly became a disconnected site!
--Bart
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Yes, I have the July 10 eMail, but I got the impression from the eMail that the temporary change for a day or two, so I did nothing, as I was busy with other matters. On 2015-10-16 01:56, Bart Kus wrote:
Well, July is about when we installed the ETiger-SnoDEM link. We reconfigured your sector (S2) for the purpose and sent you a notice on July 10th. :) Your sector returned to normal service on Oct 7th. It was a really ugly hack to keep SnoDEM connected to the network.
Did you ever try the config change I sent you to try and stay connected to the sector at its new temporary frequency & bandwidth?
--Bart
On 10/16/2015 12:34 AM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
OK, I wondered what happened. Did you work on the sector antennas?
As you know (but for lurkers), when I installed my HamWAN node in March 2014, I had a good connection until late July, whereupon it went to zero. At first I thought that this was due to foliage, but when it came back in February 2015, I attributed it to the a huge water tower in the path, and whether it was full of water or not.
On schedule, I lost my connection again this July, and have been resigned to not getting it back until early next year, so I haven't been checking it every day.
Today I have a solid connection. Not a great connection, but a lot better than zero.
On 2015-10-16 00:23, Bart Kus wrote:
Hi All,
Nigel and I did a trip today to SnoDEM to re-align a couple of the dishes. We've got nice strong signals now from East Tiger and Haystack going to SnoDEM. After Saturday's Gold Mtn deploy we'll need to take 1 more trip to align a SnoDEM dish to aim back @ Gold Mtn. This should make SnoDEM triple redundant, which is great for an EOC. Things got super sketchy there for a while, as multiple events coincided to wreak havoc on SnoDEM's connectivity:
1) Nigel moved and his uplink was disconnected as a result. 2) The CapitolPark-SnoDEM link faded into the useless signal range. We disabled it since it could hardly pass any packets. 3) A modem died @ Haystack which killed the SnoDEM feed from there. 4) My uplink to SnoDEM got tree-faded into uselessness and was disabled.
And that's how a quad-redundant site suddenly became a disconnected site!
--Bart
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