Hello there,
Managed to put the longer 3m pole up for a better scan and am getting decent LOS to KM.
@Dan perhaps you can help - is there any space available?
My node: sage_wug #14373
RB433
Hi,
7.6km is unfortunately to far to link to the sector.
There will be a new sector at Atlas shortly which is 1km from you.
I would advise you link there when it is installed.
Regards
Dan
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Hello,
Thanks for the reply - I’m a bit frustrated to be honest as I’ve been trying to connect to the WUG for more than 6 months now…there’s lots of obstructions around my home and I was not aware that there’s a distance limitation? Is that because its a sector?
I have a decent dish and the proper equipment, and I’m even keen to use another RB I have to try to help out the area below me…but just don’t seem to get connected…
Ok, will wait for Atlas
Craig
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I was also not aware of a distance limitation. I was under the impression that signal strength and CCQ were the deciding factors.
If it is a private site/sector, then there could be any number of deciding factors depending on the admin.
Like in Bellville (private sites) we don’t accept SXT’s on sectors. 
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Yes, the no SXT rule makes sense due to noise, but what could the motivation for the distance issue be? As a matter of interest.
A sector tends to be low in gain due to the area(beam-width) it has to cover.
So your TX signal would be good as you have a high gain antenna, but your RX won’t as the sector can’t see you as well as what your dish can see the sector.
This will cause a overall degradation of performance on the sector, thus affecting the other clients.
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+1 As diabolix has stated.
It can look something like -64/-78 (TX/RX). Your scan only shows TX.
Got onto the roof and took a pic toward Jupiter / Pluto
(I’ll have to get the test kit again I reckon) But anyone who is more familiar with that part - do you recognise something to give me some hope?
Or are those trees in the way already?
If I can get a solid connection, I’ve the opportunity to help folks as the view W and NW is good and open - here’s the pic:
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on the 1st pic it looks like the trees are definitely in the way and no connection will work. From the second pic your best bet would be to do a test scan and hope you pic a backbone node up. If you pic someone up at a reasonable signal and have clear LOS then you can ask to make a Point to Point link, Although that this would also most likely mean that you have to host a sector or make another backbone link to make it worth the while of the backbone node as they have to use more frequency and space on their mast.
I would be keen to host some bb links - I have the other rb available and a grid (willing to invest in another dish but will need some advice)…I guess the right discussion might be: to where would this best be done for the benefit of the network? (What would be the ideal? What if…?)
I’ve posted before that I picked up bb links to brandyencoke, km2 is in sight, neptune/MajorTom/Nextlevel/HackaJack etc are near and I approached moontop right at the beginning of this quest. I guess folks might have seen it as just getting myself connected, but perhaps we need to think bigger and doing bb?
Also, I think there may well be LOS to ganymede (circle) and atlas (arrow) - is this not them on the pic?
