I see this with interference (even though the noise floor doesn't seem to
go up). I would run a scan and see if switching channels helps.  Also,try
upgrading to 3.2.1 on both sides

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:56 PM Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is strange. Was the channel switching done during one of the events?
> Did the radio come back still at the low modulation?
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 9:36 PM Mark Frost <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> We’re experiencing a very weird and very intermittent issue with an
>> AirFiber 5x Link.
>>
>>
>>
>> For the past few weeks, we experience a one way drop in modulation – all
>> the way down to 1/4x (QPSK). This occurs at random times of the day or
>> night, lasting between 5 minutes to 2 hours, and then fixes itself. It
>> occurs randomly from one to three times in a 24 hour window on average, and
>> doesn’t seem related to traffic load.
>>
>>
>>
>> The link has been in and operational for the best part of 2 years with no
>> problems whatsoever. The path is 14.2KM (~9mi), 600mm dishes (45deg offset
>> ones) operating on a 30MHz channel and holds 64QAM. We’ve tried moving
>> channels but that hasn’t helped. The signal on both chains (1 and 0) at
>> both ends doesn’t change at all during the event (between -60 and -58
>> across all). There is no environmental changes during these events (such as
>> rain, etc).
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve spent hours reading the ubiquiti forums, and I’m still at a loss as
>> to what could cause the issue. We are operating on old firmware, and I did
>> see one post mention that the duty cycle was incorrect in a firmware
>> revision (we run at 50/50) but that seems very anecdotal.
>>
>>
>>
>> Our only option at this stage is to replace the units. I’m guessing it’ll
>> need to be both ends, as we don’t know if its RX on one unit or TX on the
>> other.
>>
>>
>>
>> I just thought I’d check in on the off chance anyone may have a
>> suggestion before we go climbing…
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>>
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