[HamWAN PSDR] KU7M testing results - Newcastle Golf Course

[Daniel Luechtefeld]

How far below the Fresnel zone(s) are you when you're on the golf course?

73, Daniel K7DGL


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Kenny Richards <richark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since the weather decided to not suck this morning, I did a quick 'site
> survey' from the Newcastle Golf Course parking lot. (N 47.53602, W
> 122.14272 @ 919 feet)
>
> I have attempted to get connected from my house several times, but haven't
> had any success. Before going back up on the tower, I wanted to try
> connecting from what I expected to be a REALLY good location.  I'm only
> about a mile as the crow flies the Newcastle Golf course, so it is my go to
> place for this kind of thing.(I'm about 500 feet lower though) From the
> edge of the golf course parking lot you can see all of downtown, right over
> the top of Mercer Island. (See attached picture)
>
> So I had expected to connect to the PtP link at Capital Park without any
> problems, since I can SEE the damn building from up there. But nope, still
> no luck. I was able to see two other sites and associate with them. I knew
> there was a node going up on Haystack, but I was surprised how easy it was
> to connect to it.  What I really don't get is how I was seeing AE7SJ's home
> link. Isn't it pointed at DEM?  (Or is AE7SJ something else?)
>
> I also discovered something else that confuses me. I saw thayward@ use
> the LED signal indicators on the radio a couple weeks ago. But this
> afternoon, I never got even one bar. Do you have to enable them before they
> work? (I'll have to dig into the docs on this one)  I would assume at least
> one bar would light up with these signal strengths, right?
>
> So my next step is taking a trip downtown with the portable setup and see
> if I can find a spot semi-close to Capital Park and try to connect. My gut
> is telling me that something is fundamentally wrong with the PtP link or
> how I have things setup on my end. The golf course isn't 'exactly' in
> between downtown and the Cougar Mnt site, but it is really close. So if
> this link is going to work as it was intended, I should have been able to
> connect from up there.
>
> I also attached the config dump from the radio.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kenny
>
> Output from Scan...
> Flags: A - active, P - privacy, R - routeros-network, N - nstreme, T -
> tdma, W - wds, B - bridge
> ADDRESS           SSID                  BAND           CHANNEL-WIDTH FREQ
> SIG   NF   SNR RADIO-NAME
> A RT   D4:CA:6D:62:D7:ED HamWAN       5ghz-n 5mhz          5890
> -88  -117  29 Haystack-S3/AE7SJ
> APRT   00:0C:42:E0:4F:AC HamWAN       5ghz-n 10mhz         5475
> -87  -117  30 AE7SJ
>
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> [image: Inline image 3]
>
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