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Good to hear about the signal at your location! I kinda thought LoS
from there would be more than -69dBm though. Gold-S2 is also a MIMO
(dual polarity) sector, so you can also look at QRT-5 (11n version
only!), or try rotating your single polarity antennas 90 degrees to
see if the other polarity works better for you.<br>
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--Bart<br>
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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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="">
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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
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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="">
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73 from Dan at K7MM<br class="">
509 330 6398</div>
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