[HamWAN PSDR] SnoDEM (Paine) is well-connected again

[Bart Kus]

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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