<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SUCCESS! Connected to Haystack, sig -79, NF -121, and SNR 42-44 during my first adjustment from 25 miles away.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks everyone for all for your help. I was surprised by the simplicity and how quick it was to aim. Glad the precision adjuster was on the recommended hardware since it make adjusting easy. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m very lucky that I can see Haystack through the small unobstructed view through the trees. See attached picture.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now it’s time to explore HamWAN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Paul KK7AMW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="F7FE214E-6CD9-4612-AA65-91740D4A61F9" src="cid:A9155B5B-445E-4370-A36F-5B507774CA80" class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 12, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Paul Sundquist <<a href="mailto:psundquist@foxhill.org" class="">psundquist@foxhill.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Bart:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I finally figured out the hamwan map on the home page and found where the "Haystack Radio Antenna Complex" is located by zooming in. Strike my previous question on coordinates.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I mapped out the path profile and it looks good. I'll have to wait till the rain clears up and the roof dries to see if I can reach it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fingers crossed. </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:14 AM Paul Sundquist <<a href="mailto:psundquist@foxhill.org" class="">psundquist@foxhill.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Haystack was my plan B when I ordered the equipment. I spent a lot of time looking towards Haystack with my binoculars and may have a clear shot from my roof. Visually it appears I can see the gap where Index, WA is located. I can see a valley by observing the mountains on the north side. Further in the distance I can see a glaciated mountain - potentially Glacier Peak.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Do you have the Haystack GPS coordinates? I’ll try aiming it at Haystack next.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks for your advise. Didn’t expect to learn so much about the mountains visible from my house with this endeavor.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">-Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:57 PM Bart Kus <<a href="mailto:me@bartk.us" target="_blank" class="">me@bartk.us</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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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If your GPS data is correct, you may also want to try a shot to
Haystack. It looks possibly unobstructed to you.<br class="">
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<div class="">On 9/11/2021 10:54 PM, Bart Kus wrote:<br class="">
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I'm not sure what's going wrong, but I can verify that S3.ETiger
is running and has 5 clients connected to it. I suspect you might
be aiming at the towers on west tiger (47.508761°, -121.984954°)
and (47.504856°, -121.971615°) whereas the HamWAN site is on east
tiger (47.488172°, -121.946733°). From your picture, you should
see a 3rd tower or cluster of towers further towards the right, if
that is the case. Google Earth is a good tool to get a sense of
the visuals, since it lets you tilt the world.<br class="">
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--Bart<br class="">
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<div class="">On 9/11/2021 4:58 PM, Paul Sundquist
wrote:<br class="">
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New install on Squak Mountain Issaquah and unable to find any
signal on Tiger Mountain. I’m 3.5 miles away west and a little
north of the tower on Tiger.
<div class="">Clear line of sight. Please validate with the
tower picture attached.<br class="">
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<div class="">Installed the following: </div>
<div class="">MikroTik mANT30 PA parabolic dish antenna 5GHz
30dBi MTAD-5G-30D3-PA</div>
<div class="">Mikrotik BaseBox 5 RB912UAG-5HPnD-OUT 5GHz
Outdoor Wireless AP Gigabit USB OSL4</div>
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<div class="">Questions:</div>
<div class="">Q1) Is the antenna tower on the right in the
picture the right site?</div>
<div class="">Q2) Is the dish assembled correctly? See
picture.</div>
<div class="">Q3) I was watching the signal strength on the
routerboard while running "/interface wireless scan 0”.
Nothing showed up on the terminal session and no signal
strength LED’s lit up. I moved it left to right and adjusted
azimuth each time I stopped.</div>
<div class="">Q4) How long should you wait to acquire the
signal between each time you move it?</div>
<div class="">Q5) Is there anything like the signal strength
tones aiming a DirecTV dish?</div>
<div class="">Q6) Any other ideas. My exported configuration
is below and I’ve successfully completed every step listed
here: <a href="https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%0D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html" target="_blank" class="">https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html</a> </div>
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<div class="">Thanks for your help!</div>
<div class="">-Paul KK7AMW</div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">[admin@KK7AMW-Issaquah] > export</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class=""># sep/08/2021 16:57:46 by RouterOS 6.48.4</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class=""># software id = H1Z0-P9F3</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">#</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class=""># model = 912UAG-5HPnD</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/interface wireless</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set [ find default-name=wlan1 ]
band=5ghz-onlyn country=no_country_set disabled=no
frequency-mode=superchannel radio-name=KK7AMW/Issaquah-Tiger
scan-list=HamWAN ssid=HamWAN \</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class=""> wireless-protocol=nv2</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/interface list</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add name=WAN</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add name=LAN</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/interface wireless channels</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites
radiate this at 0 degrees (north)" frequency=5920
list=HamWAN name=Sector1-5 width=5</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites
radiate this at 120 degrees (south-east)" frequency=5900
list=HamWAN name=Sector2-5 width=5</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites
radiate this at 240 degrees (south-west)" frequency=5880
list=HamWAN name=Sector3-5 width=5</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites
radiate this at 0 degrees (north)" frequency=5920
list=HamWAN name=Sector1-10 width=10</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites
radiate this at 120 degrees (south-east)" frequency=5900
list=HamWAN name=Sector2-10 width=10</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Cell sites
radiate this at 240 degrees (south-west)" frequency=5880
list=HamWAN name=Sector3-10 width=10</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/interface wireless security-profiles</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set [ find default=yes ]
supplicant-identity=MikroTik</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/snmp community</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set [ find default=yes ]
addresses=<a href="http://44.24.240.0/20" style="font-family:Calibri" target="_blank" class="">44.24.240.0/20</a> name=hamwan</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/system logging action</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set 3 remote=44.24.244.8</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/interface list member</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add interface=wlan1 list=WAN</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add list=LAN</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/ip address</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add address=<a href="http://192.168.86.53/24" style="font-family:Calibri" target="_blank" class="">192.168.86.53/24</a>
interface=ether1 network=192.168.86.0</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/ip dhcp-client</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add disabled=no interface=wlan1</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/ip dns</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set servers=192.168.86.9</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/ip firewall mangle</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add action=change-mss chain=output
new-mss=1378 protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn tcp-mss=!0-1378</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add action=change-mss chain=forward
new-mss=1378 protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn tcp-mss=!0-1378</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/ip route</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add distance=1 gateway=192.168.86.1</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/ip service</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set telnet disabled=yes</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set ftp disabled=yes</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set www disabled=yes</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set ssh port=222</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set api disabled=yes</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set api-ssl disabled=yes</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/snmp</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set contact="#HamWAN-Support on <a href="http://irc.freenode.org/" style="font-family:Calibri" target="_blank" class="">irc.freenode.org</a>" enabled=yes
location=47.516944,-122.0452</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/system clock</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set time-zone-name=America/Los_Angeles</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/system identity</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set name=KK7AMW-Issaquah</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/system logging</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add action=remote topics=info</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add action=remote topics=warning</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">add action=remote topics=error</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/system ntp client</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set enabled=yes primary-ntp=44.24.244.4
secondary-ntp=44.24.245.4</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">/system routerboard settings</div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt" class="">set boot-device=try-ethernet-once-then-nand</div>
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