[HamWAN PSDR] Haystack-SnoDEM (Paine) is working again

[Bart Kus]

Hello,

I went up to Haystack yesterday and replaced the failed modem there.  
The link between Haystack and SnoDEM (Snohomish County Department of 
Emergency Management / "Paine") is back up at a decent signal level.  We 
have a trip scheduled to SnoDEM for Oct 15th @ 5:00PM to better align 
two dishes there, including this SnoDEM-Haystack dish, which was 
originally aligned with Monroe.

Now despite this good news, the link between Westin and Queen Anne 
(which ultimately feeds Haystack) is suffering due to Amazon Fade, and 
it's only gonna get worse as the building is completed further and 
occupied.  We may need to re-aim the main Haystack uplink dish at a site 
different than Queen Anne.  No firm plan on this yet, but East Tiger 
might be an option.  Another option might be a new site on Capitol Hill 
that I'll be doing a signal test at on Saturday.

Lots of activity lately.

--Bart