On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Jeff Francis™ <jeff@gritch.org> wrote:
Fair enough, but what the picture doesn't show you is this is the antenna I was pointed at:
http://plane.gritch.org/plane/tn/2013-09-08%2013.35.49.jpg.html
I was only a bit further away from where I took this photo. So the angle was correct for my location (and yes, I did pan around quite a bit to make sure I had the strongest signal). I was looking up at the tower from where I was standing. Not too hard to sight in from that distance, no compass required.
So do I need to have my MAC address added to a table somewhere for this to work, or is my problem elsewhere?
There is no such table. Soon there will be a certificate based authentication scheme, but this will only prevent you from routing packet, it will not influence your ability to receive a signal. If your radio is on the right frequency, you should at least be able to receive a signal. When was your modem configured? A month or two ago the channel plan was changed, moving all the sectors into the ham-only part of the band to avoid interference from Part 15 users. The configuration here is accurate today: https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Client+Node+Configuration Tom KD7LXL