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

[Daniel Ransom]

It's working!  I had the sector antenna/Metal S5HPn high in the tree at the peak of the (leafless) canopy with -88 dB signal and lots of lost packets.  I tried a position under the canopy (after a little chain-saw work clearing branches for the positioning ropes)—voila:  -82 dB received signal with good, fast timing and few lost packets.  It's 330 feet of shielded cable into the K7MM hamshack.  When I transmit on 80 meters it reboots the modem--the cable is parallel with my off-center-fed dipole.
I ordered the QRT-5 integrated panel and MIMO radio, so we will see how much better is the signal on this new hardware.73 from Dan at K7MM509 330 6398

 

      From: Daniel Ransom <danra995 at yahoo.com>
 To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr at hamwan.org> 
 Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 6:50 PM
 Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Gold Mountain HamWAN Attempts, Dish and Sector Antennas K7MM
   
Nigel,Of course, now that you explain it, it makes sense.  Thank you.  More to report tomorrow!73 from Dan at K7MM509 330 6398

 

      From: Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com>
 To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr at hamwan.org> 
 Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 6:30 PM
 Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Gold Mountain HamWAN Attempts, Dish and Sector Antennas K7MM
  
Dan,
I think there’s a bit of confusion here. From what you’re describing about pinging google, and the screenshot you provided, the modem is getting an IP from the network properly, and has full communications.
I think what you’re seeing is that your laptop/computer connected to the modem may not be getting an IP address, which wouldn’t come from the network, but instead from the modem itself.
In step 12 of the client configuration instructions we have you disable the modem from providing DHCP to devices to make sure the modem doesn’t interfere with your home network if you plug it in there. If you plug the modem into your home network, you can give it an IP on your network on the modem’s ethernet interface, or if you plan on it being a separate network where DHCP wouldn’t interfere, you can add that back to the ethernet interface as well.
This latter scenario is described in the “Next Steps” section of the client configuration instructions page, but we don’t make it the default because everyone’s use case will be different.
Nigel

On Jan 17, 2016, at 18:07, Daniel Ransom <danra995 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Bart,Thanks for the advice on the QRT-5.  It looks very nice; I might upgrade to that.  With my vertically polarized sector antenna I found -77 dBm this afternoon, and when I rotated the antenna 90 degrees (now horizontal) my best was -88 dBm.  Again, this is a line-of-sight path at 5 feet above the ground (possible Fresnel-zone problem?).

Today I had good results with my  MikroTik Metal 5SHPn transceiver modem (reprogrammed with v6.32.3) and the sector antenna.  This time my connection attempt was mostly okay!  I could see network activity on tool > traceroute 8.8.8.8 (see attached), and I could ping google.com, averaging around 80 ms (median about 40 ms).  However, I could not get an IP address from the network. Any ideas why?

So, next it's up into the trees behind my house (tomorrow).  Already I have a dacron rope there--placed with my trusty KR4LO Air Boss pneumatic line launcher.  Down the tree and into the hamshack it's 330 feet, so I'm right at the edge of the maximum cable run.  Definitely, I will be injecting 24 Vdc!
 73 from Dan at K7MM509 330 6398
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