[HamWAN PSDR] New - not connecting Tiger Mtn

Paul Sundquist psundquist at foxhill.org
Sat Sep 11 16:58:47 PDT 2021


New install on Squak Mountain Issaquah and unable to find any signal on Tiger Mountain. I’m 3.5 miles away west and a little north of the tower on Tiger.
Clear line of sight. Please validate with the tower picture attached.

Installed the following: 
MikroTik mANT30 PA parabolic dish antenna 5GHz 30dBi MTAD-5G-30D3-PA
Mikrotik BaseBox 5 RB912UAG-5HPnD-OUT 5GHz Outdoor Wireless AP Gigabit USB OSL4

Questions:
Q1) Is the antenna tower on the right in the picture the right site?
Q2) Is the dish assembled correctly? See picture.
Q3) I was watching the signal strength on the routerboard while running "/interface wireless scan 0”. Nothing showed up on the terminal session and no signal strength LED’s lit up. I moved it left to right and adjusted azimuth each time I stopped.
Q4) How long should you wait to acquire the signal between each time you move it?
Q5) Is there anything like the signal strength tones aiming a DirecTV dish?
Q6) Any other ideas. My exported configuration is below and I’ve successfully completed every step listed here: https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html <https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html> 

Thanks for your help!
-Paul KK7AMW

[admin at KK7AMW-Issaquah] > export
# sep/08/2021 16:57:46 by RouterOS 6.48.4
# software id = H1Z0-P9F3
#
# model = 912UAG-5HPnD

/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=5ghz-onlyn country=no_country_set disabled=no frequency-mode=superchannel radio-name=KK7AMW/Issaquah-Tiger scan-list=HamWAN ssid=HamWAN \
    wireless-protocol=nv2
/interface list
add name=WAN
add name=LAN
/interface wireless channels
add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 0 degrees (north)" frequency=5920 list=HamWAN name=Sector1-5 width=5
add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 120 degrees (south-east)" frequency=5900 list=HamWAN name=Sector2-5 width=5
add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 240 degrees (south-west)" frequency=5880 list=HamWAN name=Sector3-5 width=5
add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 0 degrees (north)" frequency=5920 list=HamWAN name=Sector1-10 width=10
add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 120 degrees (south-east)" frequency=5900 list=HamWAN name=Sector2-10 width=10
add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites radiate this at 240 degrees (south-west)" frequency=5880 list=HamWAN name=Sector3-10 width=10
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik
/snmp community
set [ find default=yes ] addresses=44.24.240.0/20 name=hamwan
/system logging action
set 3 remote=44.24.244.8
/interface list member
add interface=wlan1 list=WAN
add list=LAN
/ip address
add address=192.168.86.53/24 interface=ether1 network=192.168.86.0
/ip dhcp-client
add disabled=no interface=wlan1
/ip dns
set servers=192.168.86.9
/ip firewall mangle
add action=change-mss chain=output new-mss=1378 protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn tcp-mss=!0-1378
add action=change-mss chain=forward new-mss=1378 protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn tcp-mss=!0-1378
/ip route
add distance=1 gateway=192.168.86.1
/ip service
set telnet disabled=yes
set ftp disabled=yes
set www disabled=yes
set ssh port=222
set api disabled=yes
set api-ssl disabled=yes
/snmp
set contact="#HamWAN-Support on irc.freenode.org" enabled=yes location=47.516944,-122.0452
/system clock
set time-zone-name=America/Los_Angeles
/system identity
set name=KK7AMW-Issaquah
/system logging
add action=remote topics=info
add action=remote topics=warning
add action=remote topics=error
/system ntp client
set enabled=yes primary-ntp=44.24.244.4 secondary-ntp=44.24.245.4
/system routerboard settings
set boot-device=try-ethernet-once-then-nand
[admin at KK7AMW-Issaquah] >



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