[HamWAN PSDR] New Installation at K7MM: Router Board RB912 and Ubiquiti Panel Antenna AM-5G20-90

[Tom Hayward]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Daniel Ransom via PSDR <psdr at hamwan.org>
wrote:
> I installed the new MikroTik MIMO radio and Ubiquiti panel antenna in the
> tree mount at my backyard fence (where I have LOS to Gold Mountain).  My
> signal is 6 dBm better, with increased signal-to-noise ratio, over the
> QRT-5.  (The QRT-5 moves to the South Kitsap School District bus barn for
> Emcom use.)
> The panel antenna has a 2-degree downtilt for mounting on a high site.
So,
> for my low-site location I turned it upside down.  See photos.
> I have attached a Winbox capture.
> 73 from Dan at K7MM

Dan,

This is great! I did not expect your sector antenna to have such favorable
improvement over the QRT-5. I hope the QRT-5 performs well in its new home.

I am curious if a Poynting grid antenna could be aimed precisely enough
from your tree mount to gain a few more dB.

Here's how the improvement looks on the graph (the gap is the time it took
for me to point the monitoring at your new IP address):
[image: Inline image 1]
https://monitoring.hamwan.k7nvh.com/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1&leaf_id=123

By the way, since adding SNMP graphing for your node, your link status is
now noted on the coverage map.
https://hamwan.org/t/Coverage+Map


Tom KD7LXL
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