<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ric,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Use the monitor command (like Bart suggested) and then slowly adjust the alignment of the dish. I'd recommend starting with changes in the vertical plane first and then go back to horizontal. As you make small adjustments to the dish, the signal strength will change and you can zero in the alignment. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This can be done with one person, but it really helps to have a second person reading out the results. (Says the person who has done this alone on the top of a tower with their tablet logged into the radio)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kenny</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 11:44 AM Bart Kus <<a href="mailto:me@bartk.us">me@bartk.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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These instructions are bad. Alignment should be done with "monitor"
command, not "scan" command, since scan caches and presents old
data, whereas monitor tracks real-time.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've ran these scripts a few times and let #1 run
for a couple minutes but took no other action (eg "
Optimize for best signal"). Is this all there is to optimizing?
Am I done?
<div>Also, I was surprised to see another update available so
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your dish at any <a href="https://hamwan.org/Puget%20Sound%20Data%20Ring/Sites.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">cell sites</a> and look for
beacons. Optimize for best signal.</p>
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signal is optimized, stop scanning and verify you
have an association with the cell site</p>
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