[AusNOG] Smoke and radio performance

[Robert Hudson]

Semi-related - a building near my work's internal smoke detection triggered
earlier today, calling the fire department.

And I've seen two reports of smoke detection systems in DCs giving false
alarms.

Apparently this morning from the North pylon on the Sydney Harbour Bridge,
the CBD buildings were not visible through the smoke.

Also really fun for people with respiratory issues (my kids are asthmatic,
one has been to hospital several times with it).

Fun times. Cool and normal, apparently, thoughts and prayers will fix it,
and water restrictions will apparently solve the lack of water (if you
believe NSW Govt radio advertising).

On Tue, 10 Dec. 2019, 1:17 pm Nathan Brookfield, <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

> At the moment in Sydney, visibility is less than a km in some parts, it’s
> ridiculous!
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> *On Behalf Of *Steven
> Waite
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:49 PM
> *To:* John England <john at bitwave.com.au>; Narelle Clark <
> narellec at gmail.com>; ausnog at ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Smoke and radio performance
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> We are seeing a similar thing. We have taken that into account within our
> fade margin. Only seeing 2-3dbm difference on the one or two 5ghz links we
> have. We have notice more of a hit on the 18ghz links but it only seems to
> be at night. I think its more related with humidity and temperature
> inversions added with smoke worse then last year. Noise floor has not
> changed.
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> *On Behalf Of *John
> England
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 December 2019 10:27 AM
> *To:* Narelle Clark <narellec at gmail.com>; ausnog at ausnog.net <
> ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Smoke and radio performance
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> Nothing too substantial during the day on any of our 5GHz, 24GHz or 80GHz
> links. Plenty of early AM thermal ducting events that seem worse than usual
> on 5GHz. Not sure how bad the smoke is there, but our visibility was down
> to ~4km at the worst.
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> Cheers.
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> John England
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> *On Behalf Of *Narelle
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 December 2019 11:14 AM
> *To:* ausnog at ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* [AusNOG] Smoke and radio performance
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> Folks
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> Does anyone have any real world measurement data on the performance impact
> from the bushfire smoke on point to point radio throughput?
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> We're seeing a hit on a 5GHz system over the last week or so which seems
> awfully coincidental...
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