[HamWAN PSDR] KU7M testing results - Newcastle Golf Course

[Kenny Richards]

I don't know how to even figure that out.....




On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Luechtefeld <
daniel.luechtefeld at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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