Drop in positions after Pi update and moving antenna

[patjones80]

Thank you to everyone for the responses. This is all very helpful.

@jafrank

If it’s a magnet base antenna (you should probably think about upgrading to a better antenna, but…) moving it from a metal roof to a wood roof likely eliminated the “ground plane”.

Upgrading the antenna is actually in the cards (I’m looking at the 66 cm antenna that seems to have wide approval) - but does having the better antenna completely negate the need for the ground plane, or is the ground plane always helpful?

@wiedehopf

No.
Reduce gain.

Weakest RSSI in the list at -30 is a good rough estimate for sensible gain.

Thanks for that. I guess I need to better understand RSSI. I was looking at this post from several years ago and trying to compare it to what I’ve got going on. I’m going to try going down to 50 on the gain and seeing what happens.