Well, it looks like I’ve got some water ingress into my antenna or cable somewhere. I was wondering why I had some funny stats days and now when I think about it it was days it had rained…
This afternoon after a fine day we had a rain storm come through… my main system which feeds here and FR fell over, whilst my portable system soldiered on… sigh…
Portable system:
Main system:
FA Stats page for the main system:
The lightest blue trace is the telling one
Looks like I have some investigating to do next weekend
Found water dripping out of the N connector when I disassembled everything. I think its getting in where the plastic joins the metal base. I’ll let it dry out inside for a few days and then try to reseal it.
Have pressed the Maxrad unity gain antenna that I normally use with my portable setup into service for the interim.
Following several days of heavy rain, my performance plummeted. My antenna is pretty inaccessible so I could not get to it to examine. Then we had a very cold spell, well below freezing, and my range improved, the best ever! With a thaw, I again lost range, but as things dried out, performance returned. Hope to change out antenna next week!
