[HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Gold Mountain HamWAN Attempts, Dish and Sector Antennas K7MM

Sat Jan 16 21:49:18 PST 2016

Evening Dan,

Sounds like you had some good luck today! In general I don’t think the versions should matter all too much, I haven’t see any reports of issues with getting a DHCP lease over version differences, though S2 at gold is running 6.32.3. Since you upgraded, but didn’t re-evaluate the configuration, maybe there’s something funky in the config that happened with the update that made it not grab an IP. I’d double check there.

Nigel

> On Jan 16, 2016, at 18:41, Daniel Ransom <danra995 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom.
> Here is a status update on my efforts at accessing the Gold Mountain HamWAN.  I went out with my two MikroTik Metal 5SHPn transceiver modems, one of my dishes, and a sector antenna this morning.  I tested from the corner of E Collins Road and Babydoll Rd, at 47.548349, -122.5939, here in east Port Orchard.  From this location I can see the flashing white beacon on Gold Mountain.
> 
> I get a good signal on the mesh dish:  -69 dBm.  The vertically polarized sector antenna (SA58-90-17-WB) has 10 dB less signal, but the modem will "associate" with the network.  Pointing is not critical--I've got about 15 degrees each way, a 30-degree sweep where I have reasonable signal (around -80 dBm).  This is at ground level.  It should work when I hoist it into the trees behind my house.
> 
> I have two modems; one has a broken back-cover latch and is on v6.12.  It associates well, even on the sector antenna.  Unfortunately, I can't seal the back connection because of the broken latch.
> 
> My other, water-resistant modem I updated from v6.12 to v6.32.3.  I did not do a full reset when updating the client configuration from the HamWAN website.  I could not get this one to acquire an IP address from the network, even on the dish antenna.  I went back to my hamshack (I was wet and tired and water was fritzing my laptop keyboard!).  I reset and reloaded this modem to try again tomorrow.   Does RouterOS firmware matter?
> 
> When I put the sector antenna/modem into the tree I will use a rope on top from which to hang the combination antenna/modem, and two ropes at the bottom of the sector antenna (one on each left and right side) to steer the antenna.  I have shielded, outdoor CAT6 cable (Ubiquity ToughCable Carrier) as a downlead.
> We're hams, we experiment!
> 
> 73 from Dan at K7MM
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