Probably dead Tx. I've seen it a few times. Most of the time it's the Tx/Rx switch, which means both directions lose 20-30dB. But I've definitely seen only Tx or only Rx die before. The 85+ degrees the past few days probably contributed to its demise. Pouring sweat working at a tower today. That sucked.

On 9/1/2015 6:17 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
This SM just stopped working after several months. I would say it went "deaf", but Spectrum Analyzer still works. It sees the AP at the right frequency and signal level, and if I move the AP frequency around it's clear that interference is not the problem. And no, it's not a configuration issue.

I'm sending a field tech to climb the customer's TV tower tomorrow and change out the SM, but I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen this before.

Is this a known failure mode - not deaf, but seemingly can't lock onto or decode beacons?


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