<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>In between the rain this weekend, I did some more testing with HamWAN  from my home in Marysville.</div><div><br></div><div>My "test stand":</div><div>* MikroTik RB912UAG5HPnDOT<br></div><div>* Altelix AD5G30M2 antenna kit<br></div><div>* 10 foot mast on a small 3 foot tripod, from deck of backyard</div><div><br></div><div>I was able to get a connection (do some pings, visit some http sites), but it was a bit intermittent with the wind swaying the dish on the mast.  If I decide to mount permanently, I'll need to find a way to attach the top part of the mast near the house to minimize the movement.</div><div><br></div><div>Best results were:</div><div><br></div><div>







<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[admin@N7CS] > /interface wireless scan 0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Flags: A - active, P - privacy, R - routeros-network, N - nstreme, T - tdma, W - wds, B - bridge</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">       ADDRESS           SSID                      CHANNEL                     SIG   NF SNR RADIO-NAME                     ROUTEROS-VERSION</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">A RT B 64:D1:54:95:C4:7F HamWAN                    5920/5/an                   -71 -124  53 K7WAN/SnoDEM-S1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">A RT B 64:D1:54:6A:65:A8 HamWAN                    5900/5/an                   -83 -123  40 K7WAN/SnoDEM-S2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">-- [Q quit|D dump|C-z pause]</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>As the wind would blow, the SIG numbers would jump into the -90's for a moment and then come back.  Ping times to <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> were between 90-500+ ms.  I'll keep doing some experiments with different placements to see if I can get an improved signal when I can find a sunny weekend.  In the meantime, just wanted to say thanks to the all the people that have been answering my questions over the past few months.</div><div><br></div>Regards,<div>Burt J. Guillot, N7CS</div></div></div></div></div>