RAK7258 weak coverage

The last days I had some time to setup my RAK7258 gateway and lora nodes RAK7205. The TTN setup was straight forward and easy to handle.
Gateway is on the latest firmware 1.1.0045_Release r176 and I use Power over Ethernet.
The maximum range I could get with TTN mapper was 300m. So I tested the Nodes in an urban area and successfully transmitted packages over 3 KM. So the Node is not the problem.

When I remove the antenna from the gateway the coverage is only a view meters. So it looks like the antenna is working.

Maybe there is a problem with the Firmware / Hardware / Configuration?
Any ideas?

Hi @Agrikula,
First of all the latest firmware is r180, this should not matter, but better to be up to date.
Can you give us a little more context :freq band, power settings, nodes, channels, etc.
Perhaps some logs.

Regards
Vladislav

Thank you for the fast reply!
Will test also with the new Firmware.
I use the TTN 868MHz EU Band.
TTN Server: router.eu.thethings.network Semtech UDP
The Node is a RAK7205 with AT firmware 3.0.0.3.H

I will send some logs when I am on site.

Hi @Agrikula,

Thank you, would love to check the logs, on first glance however I see you are using 867.4MHz, which is not a part of the eu868 ttn plan. Also you are missi g the 867.9MHz. Start by setting the gateway plan properly and we will seem what comes next :slight_smile:

Firmware update done :+1:
Reconfigured TTN EU868 frequency plan and rebooted gateway :+1:

At the moment the distance is 300m (inhouse standard windows)

Node LOG:

[LoRa]: LORA_EVENT_UNKNOWN 4
Go to Sleep.
Wake up.
Battery Voltage = 4.200 V
ACC X: 0 mg, Y: -256 mg, Z: -256 mg
Humidity:48.0 %RH
pressure:993.0 hPa
Temperature:27.0 degree
[LoRa]: Send out
[LoRa]: LORA_EVENT_UNKNOWN 4
Go to Sleep.

Gateway LOG:

Fri Aug 16 20:22:29 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: src/jitqueue.c:452:jit_print_queue(): INFO: [jit] queue is empty
Fri Aug 16 20:22:29 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]:
JSON up: {“stat”:{“time”:“2019-08-16 18:22:29 UTC”,“lati”:48.xxxxx,“long”:16.xxxxx,“alti”:210,“rxnb”:0,“rxok”:0,“rxfw”:0,“ackr”:100.0,“dwnb”:0,“txnb”:0,“cpur”:0.0,“memr”:0.0}}
Fri Aug 16 20:22:29 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [up] PUSH_ACK received in 58 ms
Fri Aug 16 20:22:51 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: Received pkt CRC BAD
Fri Aug 16 20:22:52 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [down] PULL_ACK received in 54 ms
Fri Aug 16 20:22:57 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [down] PULL_ACK received in 53 ms
Fri Aug 16 20:22:59 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: src/jitqueue.c:452:jit_print_queue(): INFO: [jit] queue is empty
Fri Aug 16 20:22:59 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]:
JSON up: {“stat”:{“time”:“2019-08-16 18:22:59 UTC”,“lati”:48.xxxxx,“long”:16.xxxxx,“alti”:210,“rxnb”:1,“rxok”:0,“rxfw”:0,“ackr”:100.0,“dwnb”:0,“txnb”:0,“cpur”:0.0,“memr”:0.0}}
Fri Aug 16 20:22:59 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [up] PUSH_ACK received in 55 ms

Hi @Agrikula,

I was hoping to see the rssi and channel of the frames, can you provide that data.

Regards
Vladislav

Hi! Hope you had a good weekend!

Here are the Gateway logs. Node is 40m away.

This are the values of the Node 300m away (line of sight).