<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Evening Dan,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sounds like you had some good luck today! In general I don’t think the versions should matter all too much, I haven’t see any reports of issues with getting a DHCP lease over version differences, though S2 at gold is running 6.32.3. Since you upgraded, but didn’t re-evaluate the configuration, maybe there’s something funky in the config that happened with the update that made it not grab an IP. I’d double check there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nigel</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2016, at 18:41, Daniel Ransom <<a href="mailto:danra995@yahoo.com" class="">danra995@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Tom.<br class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452887802440_104800" dir="ltr" class="">Here is a status update on my efforts at accessing the Gold Mountain HamWAN. I went out with my two MikroTik Metal 5SHPn transceiver modems, one of my dishes, and a sector antenna this morning. I tested from the corner of E Collins Road and Babydoll Rd, at 47.548349, -122.5939, here in east Port Orchard. From this location I can see the flashing white beacon on Gold Mountain. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452887802440_103573" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452887802440_103574" class="">I get a good signal on the mesh dish: -69 dBm. The vertically polarized sector antenna (SA58-90-17-WB) has 10 dB less signal, but the modem will "associate" with the network. Pointing is not critical--I've got about 15 degrees each way, a 30-degree sweep where I have reasonable signal (around -80 dBm). This is at ground level. It should work when I hoist it into the trees behind my house.</div><br class="">I have two modems; one has a broken back-cover latch and is on v6.12. It associates well, even on the sector antenna. Unfortunately, I can't seal the back connection because of the broken latch.<br class=""><br class="">My other, water-resistant modem I updated from v6.12 to v6.32.3. I did not do a full reset when updating the client configuration from the HamWAN website. I could not get this one to acquire an IP address from the network, even on the dish antenna. I went back to my hamshack (I was wet and tired and water was fritzing my laptop keyboard!). I reset and reloaded this modem to try again tomorrow. Does RouterOS firmware matter?<br class=""><br class="">When I put the sector antenna/modem into the tree I will use a rope on top from which to hang the combination antenna/modem, and two ropes at the bottom of the sector antenna (one on each left and right side) to steer the antenna. I have shielded, outdoor CAT6 cable (Ubiquity ToughCable Carrier) as a downlead.<br class="">We're hams, we experiment!<br class=""><br class="">73 from Dan at K7MM<br class="">509 330 6398</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>