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<p>The other likely contributor is the tilt and down-angle, particularly to Dave's location so close to the tower. The down-tilt and orientation didn't change on the sector, but it did move upward about 3 feet. If Dave was on the very bottom of the RF path, the 3' change likely decreased the already marginal connect. </p>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2023-08-02 08:09, Kenny Richards wrote:</p>
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<div class="v1gmail_default" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">With your location, I would expect the sector relocation to hurt your connectivity. The sector is targeted at Seattle and we raised it to get above the ever growing trees in front of the tower. The path for your QTH (which is at the base of the mountain) is going through all those trees and will just continue to get worse unless some of them are removed.</div>
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<div class="v1gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 4:01 AM David Jenner via PSDR <<a href="mailto:psdr@hamwan.org" rel="noreferrer">psdr@hamwan.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">My signal strength dropped 8db and average Mbps halved.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I am only approx 3 miles away, but at sea level below tower. I used to be in second side lobe with almost all signal going over my head.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I hope your raising of S2 and "other maintenance" at least reduces possible interference of trees on path to my dish. With elimination of Gold, Buck is only possibility of connection from here now.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On Aug 1, 2023, at 7:50 PM, Rob Salsgiver <<a href="mailto:rob@nr3o.com" rel="noreferrer">rob@nr3o.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></blockquote>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">Today Kenny and I made a trip up to Buck Mountain for some improvements. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">The primary two focus items were to re-purpose the former Buck to Gold PtP dish from Gold to Camp Murray. The second RF item was to raise S2 a bit on the structure to improve signal path.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">Some additional signal path maintenance was done.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">Even before arriving onsite, the Buck-CampMurray path was close enough to the Buck-Gold and Gold-CampMurray paths to get the Buck-CampMurray path "talking" with OSPF active at a measly 6.5Mbps. After peaking the dish, that speed went up to 28.8Mbps. After the other maintenance and some time to train the signal and settle out, the Buck-CampMurray link runs between -68 and -72, with a speed of 78-86Mbps. This is without signal-peaking the Camp Murray end. Both ends of that link are running RouterOS 7, and the Camp Murray end is running a 912 instead of a 921 (for you hardware geeks).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">There is still room for improvement at the Camp Murray end, but in truth we appear to be in a pretty good spot even if we can't get to it for a while!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">This now gives the Buck Mountain site two pretty equal link paths to Camp Murray and Capital Park. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">If you have a client that attaches to S2.Buck, check your connection and let us know how it's going. We know that one client needed a restart before reconnecting.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">Traffic was UGLY coming back, but a good day's results nevertheless.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">Thanks Kenny for putting together the time, site access, climbing, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal">Rob Salsgiver – NR3O<u></u><u></u></p>
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