[HamWAN PSDR] Signal levels

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

I've thought of it.  In order to clear the half-dozen or so houses in 
the path of Haystack, I would have to install a tower in my back yard;  
mounting the antenna on the east side of my house wouldn't do, due to 
the afore-mentioned houses.

I've also thought of pointing at other HamWAN cells.  Somehow, I have a 
really good path at 1.2GHz to KB7CNN on East Tiger Mountain: One watt 
into a 10dB omni-directional antenna does it.  The path to the Mt. Baldi 
site just clears the hills west of East Tiger Mountain by a couple 
hundred feet (assuming no earth curvature!).

Capital Hill is also line-of-sight, except for some really big trees a 
couple blocks south of me.  I also supposedly have line-of-sight to the 
TV towers on Queen Anne, but since reception of channel 5 (KING-TV) is 
problematic, I suspect the same trees are a factor there.

On 2015-04-05 23:10, Bart Kus wrote:
> Have you ever tried pointing @ Haystack?
>
> --Bart
>
> On 4/5/2015 10:41 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
>> OK, I don't believe any of you cut down any trees on the 5.9GHz path 
>> to the SnoCo DEM near Paine field, but *something changed*:
>>
>> Starting about a week ago, the signal levels have increased about 
>> 6dBm.  For the past several days I have had more or less a decent 
>> connection:
>>                   status: connected-to-ess
>>                     band: 5ghz-n-5mhz
>>                frequency: 5900MHz
>>        wireless-protocol: nv2
>>                  tx-rate: 2.2Mbps
>>                  rx-rate: 1.5Mbps
>>                     ssid: HamWAN
>>                    bssid: D4:CA:6D:7A:B8:07
>>               radio-name: Paine-S2
>>          signal-strength: -84dBm
>>      signal-strength-ch0: -84dBm
>>       tx-signal-strength: -79dBm
>>   tx-signal-strength-ch0: -79dBm
>>              noise-floor: -118dBm
>>          signal-to-noise: 34dB
>>
>> This is in marked contrast to just two weeks ago, when I couldn't 
>> hold a connection at all (as was typical through the entire winter).
>>
>> Kenny, I thought you told me your connection has been poor lately.  
>> Have you checked in the past week?
>>
>> On 2015-02-17 13:36, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Now, if I can just get a couple of you to cut down some trees (not 
>>> on my property) in the middle of the night, my appreciation would be 
>>> unbounded ...
>>>
>>> -- Dean
>>
>>
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