[HamWAN PSDR] Gold - Buck PtP Update

[Bart Kus]

Awesome!  And a great use of crossover plates to implement that mount.  
Let's hope that -62 becomes a -52 with the removal of some foliage.  Is 
the local path @ Gold clear @ the 90ft level?

I think I left that dish+modem on the floor when I was there last. It 
was supposed to be Buck.Gold, but we ran out of time.

If you're going back to Buck for vegetation maintenance, can we do a PTZ 
there?

--Bart


On 8/1/2020 9:09 PM, David C. Jenner via PSDR wrote:
> Kenny,
>
> It's great you got this link running.
>
> If you do remove some "biological interference" on Buck, it would be 
> great if you could include the trees (tops?) that might block the view 
> to lower elevations.  In the photo you took last year (linked 
> following) I have placed a red oval around tree tops that could block 
> my view of the Buck sector in the future.
>
> And, if you could check if there is any chance of tipping the sector 
> down a bit, that would be great, too.  Does the sector antenna 
> illuminate the tops of the Cascades?  Or the lowlands between the 
> Cascades and Puget Sound.  I am so close (and below) that I estimate I 
> am in the 2nd sidelobe of the sector beam pattern, losing 20-25dB of 
> signal strength.
>
> Thanks and
> 73,
> Dave
> K7DCJ
>
> On 8/1/20 7:59 PM, Kenny Richards wrote:
>> With the help of Rob-NR3O and Mike-N7NFY, a nearly 12 month old to-do 
>> item was finished today. We were able to complete the installation of 
>> the Buck.Gold PtP, so the Buck site is no longer dependent on the 
>> link to Capitol Park.
>>
>> On my last visit to Buck, I installed a PtP dish and pointed it at 
>> Gold using one of the Gold sectors. The plan was to install the Gold 
>> PtP last summer, but the list of work items for the Gold visit 
>> exceeded our time and no real mount point was available. The plan was 
>> to go back up with the necessary mount and install the PtP, but it 
>> never happened and winter came.
>>
>> This morning the crew got onsite around 9:30am and we proceeded to 
>> lift the new mount in place and install the dish/radio for the 
>> Buck.Gold PtP link. The installation actually went pretty painless, I 
>> was able to eyeball the alignment enough to get the 
>> initial connection even. The final signal strength wasn't wonderful 
>> (~62 I think), but I know the Buck side needs some biological 
>> interference removed on the next trip. (which we have permission 
>> todo) The dish is mounted on the north facing side of the tower at 
>> ~90 feet(?). I was able to run the CAT5 along an existing path, so no 
>> additional cable cushions were even needed.
>>
>> https://www.ku7m.net/drop/Buck.Gold.PtP.jpg
>>
>> I'll get to work adding the new radios to Cacti tomorrow, along with 
>> the Rattlesnake and Blyn radios.
>>
>> NOTE1: I don't have a portable label printer and didn't think about 
>> pre-printing one for the CAT5 in the rack for the new radio. I 'made' 
>> a label with some scrap paper, magic marker and a zip tie.
>>
>> NOTE2: There was a complete 921netmetal and dish in the building at 
>> Gold. I have a bad feeling I bought it last summer for the Buck.Gold 
>> link, left it onsite when we weren't able to get it installed and  
>> completely forgot about it. HamWAN purchased a new one last month for 
>> this link, so I'll confirm what happened with Doug and donate it to 
>> his stock....
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kenny
>>
>>
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> * Buck 2019 Trees.jpg (3.2 MB) hosted on Dropbox: 
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