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

[Bart Kus]

What antenna is giving you that -82dBm reading?  That's quite low for a 
LoS shot.  I hope we don't have a vertical alignment problem with the 
sector.

--Bart


On 1/18/2016 6:44 PM, Daniel Ransom via PSDR wrote:
> 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 K7MM
> 509 330 6398
>
>
>
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> *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 K7MM
> 509 330 6398
>
>
>
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> *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 
>> <mailto: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 <http://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 K7MM
>> 509 330 6398
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