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After some hacking, bluetooth networking is working well.
Initially tried the antennas bluetooth access points on a metal pole mounted on the NW corner of the base trailer. All three access point radios were on the same pole.
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- a bug (mine) in the blue_check.sh script on the DSMs, where it did not restart the pand process if ping failed
- some of the dipole antennas on the radios were not screwed on tightly. I didn't note which stations.
Those 6 sites had pretty good LOS. However other sites which also had good LOS did not come in, which may have been due to the above 2 issues. The dorm buildings were in the way of line-of-site to 5,6,7,9,10,11,12. None of these sites with poor LOS were received.
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After lunch, moved the bluetooth radios over to the deck on the back of dorm #2, which has good LOS to all sites. The pole was just bungied to the step railing. AP3 was at the level of the railing, AP1 about a foot above that,
and AP2 about 3 feet above the railing.
Lo-and-behold, only the same connections came in (1,8,13,14,15 and 17), but, initially at least, no others.
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