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First of all, Kenny: welcome! Now that you have a HamWAN
connection, I hope you are no longer mad at me. Where is your
antenna (inside/outside, height above ground, etc)?<br>
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On a related but more serious side, do you have a direct
line-of-sight path to Capitol Hill, or do you go through trees? The
reason I ask is, my path goes through some trees. When it is windy,
that causes my RX signal level (dBm value) to vary about 5 dB
(mostly down). I have wondered whether mounting my antenna higher
would help my overall value (of course it would help when it is
windy).<br>
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My average RX signal level is 80 dBm (no winds), and yours appears
to be 83 dBm. However, you are twice as far from your cell site as
I am from mine, and since power falls off as the square of the
distance, I'd expect (in similar configurations and siting) that you
would experience a 6 dB difference. Since the difference is only 3
dB, that suggests that (all things being equal, which they never
are) I might gain <b>at most</b> 3 dB by moving the antenna.<br>
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