<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Ric,<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) The LEDs are a fairly crude measure of signal strength. You can fine-tune the alignment for maximum signal strength, as displayed by the The "signal-strength" field on the "/interface wireless monitor 0" display. I suspect a lot of folks would be pretty happy with 4 out of 5 LEDs lit.<br></div><div><br></div><div>2. Control-C will end the pings, and will also end other commands such as the monitor command above. Also, you can tell the router to only issue x number of pings with the command (From Winbox): <br></div><div><br></div><div>/ping a.b.c.d count=5 (or whatever number)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also if you just want one "snapshot" of the state of the radio:<br></div><div><br></div><div>/interface wireless monitor 0 once <br></div><div><br></div><div>3) 22.9 as measured at the radio is plenty. I believe that AWG 24 wire (such as in CAT5) has a resistance of about 1 ohm per 12 meters, so there should be a fairly predictable voltage drop, depending on the length of cat5 cable, and the current draw of the radio. <br></div><div> </div><div>4) A client license comes with purchase of a Mikrotik Routerboard. Other devices may vary--such as a PC that requires a license purchase to run RouterOS.<br></div><div><br></div><div>John KX7JM</div><div><br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn"><div><hr>John C. Miller<br></div><div><a href="mailto:john@jmit.com">john@jmit.com</a><br></div><div>(530)873-9005<br></div></div><div><br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" style="" class="zmail_extra"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:20:56 -0700 <b>Ric Merry <ricmerry@gmail.com></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks to help from Tom, Rob and Andrew rectifying issues both on my end and sector configuration I'm up and running.<br></div><div>I have more questions of course. If there's a repository of simple FAQ's please forgive my asking these here and point me towards them if you please.<br></div><div>1. I have 4 of 5 LED's lit. Should I continue tweaking until I have all 5?<br></div><div>2. I didn't know how to stop /ping once I started it. Would it have eventually stopped on it's own or?I tried Q to now avail, finally just exited out.<br></div><div>3. I read something about POE voltages. Is that something I should be concerned with? Mine appears to be at 22.9.<br></div><div>4. I didn't understand the part about licensing from MikroTIK. As a client is this something I need to be concerned with?<br></div><div>Any next steps? I'm going to try some Telnet Winlink next, I don't expect that to be any challenge at all.<br></div><div>Many thanks again for all the help I've gotten from both the collective and individual members.<br></div><div>Ric Merry. K7iTE. Mount Vernon WA<br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>PSDR mailing list<br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>