The last time I experienced that, it was a bad cable end, where the wind had shaken the last 18 inches of 400 size cable - the distance from the last clamp to the N connector, and the N connector had literally shaken apart. The entire braiding had broken loose and the compression on the foam inner had crushed until the whole cable began creeping out of the connector. It was cold, and even the shrink wrap had cracked, and the tape wrapped over that was just slowly stretching...
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:12 AM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: [WISPA] Wind! > Windy today, supposed to have gusts up to 50mph before days end. I was > monitoring some backhaul links, had one bouncing from -72 to -83. Up and > down. I'm thinking, uh-oh, got a grid loose someplace, better go fix it > now > before it gets worse. I go out, first end solid as can be. I even shake > the heck out of it, all good. I guess the other end is messed up. Go > out, > also solid. Look at the laptop, still bouncing. Using pac 28dbi grids > with > 411 boards R52h cards on both sides. First grid is at 60', second at 100' > No trees, heck I can almost see the other end with my naked and cold eye. > It's only 4 miles out. Link is normally -72. Maybe junk being tossed up > in > the wind? That would be a lot ot junk for -10 drop in RSSI I would think. > > > > Just sharing. Weird. > > > > > > Robert West > > Just Micro Digital Services Inc. > > 740-335-7020 > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
