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Great to hear! And if you ever want more speed, it's a simple
matter of just using a larger dish. Welcome aboard, have fun moving
packets. :)<br>
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--Bart<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/12/2021 10:13 PM, Paul Sundquist
wrote:<br>
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SUCCESS! Connected to Haystack, sig -79, NF -121, and SNR 42-44
during my first adjustment from 25 miles away.
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<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>
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<div class="">I’m very lucky that I can see Haystack through the
small unobstructed view through the trees. See attached
picture.</div>
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<div class="">Now it’s time to explore HamWAN.</div>
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<div class="">-Paul KK7AMW</div>
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<div class="">On Sep 12, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Paul Sundquist
<<a href="mailto:psundquist@foxhill.org" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">psundquist@foxhill.org</a>>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Bart:
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class="">Fingers crossed. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 12, 2021
at 12:14 AM Paul Sundquist <<a
href="mailto:psundquist@foxhill.org" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">psundquist@foxhill.org</a>>
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<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>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Do you have the Haystack
GPS coordinates? I’ll try aiming it at Haystack
next.</div>
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<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>
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<div dir="auto" class="">-Paul</div>
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<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="" moz-do-not-send="true">me@bartk.us</a>>
wrote:<br class="">
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<div class=""> 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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--Bart<br class="">
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<div class="">On 9/11/2021 10:54 PM, Bart
Kus wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class=""> 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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<blockquote type="cite" class=""> 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>
<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=""
moz-do-not-send="true">https://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html</a> </div>
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</div>
<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=""
moz-do-not-send="true">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=""
moz-do-not-send="true">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=""
moz-do-not-send="true">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>
<div
style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"
class="">[admin@KK7AMW-Issaquah]
></div>
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