[HamWAN PSDR] SnoDEM (Paine) is well-connected again

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

OK, I wondered what happened. Did you work on the sector antennas?

As you know (but for lurkers), when I installed my HamWAN node in March 
2014, I had a good connection until late July, whereupon it went to 
zero. At first I thought that this was due to foliage, but when it came 
back in February 2015, I attributed it to the a huge water tower in the 
path, and whether it was full of water or not.

On schedule, I lost my connection again this July, and have been 
resigned to not getting it back until early next year, so I haven't been 
checking it every day.

Today I have a solid connection. Not a great connection, but a lot 
better than zero.

On 2015-10-16 00:23, Bart Kus wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Nigel and I did a trip today to SnoDEM to re-align a couple of the 
> dishes.  We've got nice strong signals now from East Tiger and 
> Haystack going to SnoDEM.  After Saturday's Gold Mtn deploy we'll need 
> to take 1 more trip to align a SnoDEM dish to aim back @ Gold Mtn.  
> This should make SnoDEM triple redundant, which is great for an EOC.  
> Things got super sketchy there for a while, as multiple events 
> coincided to wreak havoc on SnoDEM's connectivity:
>
> 1) Nigel moved and his uplink was disconnected as a result.
> 2) The CapitolPark-SnoDEM link faded into the useless signal range. We 
> disabled it since it could hardly pass any packets.
> 3) A modem died @ Haystack which killed the SnoDEM feed from there.
> 4) My uplink to SnoDEM got tree-faded into uselessness and was disabled.
>
> And that's how a quad-redundant site suddenly became a disconnected site!
>
> --Bart