Almost on! Efforts on the Lakewood station

[Matt Z (KC4YLV)]

Spent a weekend playing with the Nanostation. At 25 feet, i was able to get 100% LQ from Green Mountain, but no data packets. Suspect my TX power is low.

I just won a best offer on a Bullet M2 HP and am going to pick up a ~20db grid antenna to try to get on.

RSSI's with the Nanostation were -74 and when I put it at the focus of an old DirecTV dish i was able to get it up to -70 or so. We are close, but i'm going to get a 'proper' setup going and try that. 

Before long we should have some coverage here in Lakewood!

[Matt Z (KC4YLV)]

We're making more progress!

I nixed the Dish setup as it was proving too weird to adapt to a pole mount and set to 0 degrees. Picked up a BulletM2 HP and a 14db outdoor patch antenna. I'm getting link to Green Mountain and as low as 5% packet loss on pings to it. It's not _quite_ there - still trying to play with location and get the best signal - but we're really close.

The notion is to use the M2 and directional for the backhaul, and then put up the Nanostation as a neighborhood access node. Might help convince some others to link up.

 

[Matt Z (KC4YLV)]

Antenna is now at 25 feet on my real ham mast (no more wobbly paint poles) and i'm SO CLOSE. 60-100% LQ and 40-80% NLQ to green mountain. ETX is as low as 1.5 at times. I have a 25 foot tall metal building on the bearing about 200 feet away; trying to get above that as much as I can. May try 30....yeesh...not sure if my mounts can take the leverage.