<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv7281077984"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_3884"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_3883" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271058">Tom,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271056">Thanks for the tip! The MIMO function is on:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268516"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268518">[admin@K7MM-QRT5->Gold] >> interface wireless print advanced <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268434" clear="none">Flags: X - disabled, R - running <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268436" clear="none"> 0 R name="wlan1-gateway" mtu=1500 mac-address=E4:8D:8C:F6:7F:34 arp=enabled <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268438" clear="none"> ...<br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268474" clear="none"> ht-supported-mcs=mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7,mcs-8,mcs-<br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268476" clear="none"> 9,mcs-10,mcs-11,mcs-12,mcs-13,mcs-14,mcs-15,mcs-16,mcs-17,mcs-18,<br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268478" clear="none"> mcs-19,mcs-20,mcs-21,mcs-22,mcs-23 <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268480" clear="none"> ht-basic-mcs=mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7 <font id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271094" color="#cd232c"><b id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271093">tx-chains=0,1 <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268482" clear="none"> rx-chains=0,1</b></font> amsdu-limit=8192 amsdu-threshold=8192 tdma-period-size=2 <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268484" clear="none"> nv2-queue-count=2 nv2-qos=default nv2-cell-radius=30 nv2-security=disabled <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268486" clear="none"> ... <br class="yiv7281077984" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268496" clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_4068">I went back to the "south 40" and confirmed the aim and tilt. This afternoon my "kite" panel is getting -80 dBm.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_4388"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_4602">Next I tried to run on only the '0' and only the '1' antennas with the "interface wireless set 0 tx-chains=n and rx-chains=n" commands. The result: no signal. Is there another way to use only one antenna polarization for testing?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_5631">73 from Dan at K7MM</div></div><div id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268519"><span id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271075"></span></div><br clear="none"><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv7281077984yqt8972257924" id="yiv7281077984yqt00944"></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_4063" class=".yiv7281077984yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268763" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268762" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271051"> <font id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271074" size="2" face="Arial"> </font><hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453930021255_4927" size="1"> <b id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271078"><span id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271077" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Daniel Ransom <danra995@yahoo.com>; Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr@hamwan.org> <br clear="none"> <b id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271081"><span id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_271080" style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:03 AM<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Gold Mountain HamWAN Attempts, Dish and Sector Antennas K7MM<br clear="none"> </div> <div class="yiv7281077984y_msg_container" id="yiv7281077984yui_3_16_0_1_1453588507079_268761"><br clear="none">On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Daniel Ransom via PSDR <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:psdr@hamwan.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:psdr@hamwan.org">psdr@hamwan.org</a>> wrote:<div class="yiv7281077984yqt1830249879" id="yiv7281077984yqtfd55588"><br clear="none">> Today I put up my new QRT5 MIMO panel (does MikroTik not know that QRT means<br clear="none">> to stop sending?!!!). I have better signal strength at -80 dBm. The signal<br clear="none">> strength on the Laird SA58-90-17-WB/Metal S5HPn has been slipping to around<br clear="none">> -84 dBm today. So, by going MIMO, I got at least 3 dB better in actual<br clear="none">> signal strength on the QRT5--should it be more?. Either the 3dB or the MIMO<br clear="none">> (or both) give me slightly better reliability on the QRT5, where the Worst<br clear="none">> times for the hops in the Tools > Traceroute display have less variance than<br clear="none">> on the sector/Metal combination.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Dan,</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Your signal is just barely on the margin of functional. Hopefully this<br clear="none">can be resolved. Maybe the wind / tree movement has changed your aim<br clear="none">for the worse.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Looking at the stats on the sector, it looks like you don't have MIMO<br clear="none">enabled on the QRT5. You could stand to gain some better performance<br clear="none">by enabling this. What do you see when you run<br clear="none">/interface wireless print advanced?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'd expect to see tx-chains=0,1 rx-chains=0,1. You can set this if needed:<br clear="none">/interface wireless set 0 tx-chains=0,1 rx-chains=0,1<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tom KD7LXL<div class="yiv7281077984yqt1830249879" id="yiv7281077984yqtfd21718"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>