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@leviaton I hear ya. What I can tell you is that received my replacement MGW310 a week or two ago. My initial point about GPS signal remains true, meaning 360 line of sight is critical for any GEODNET at least in my location. I can’t prove the GEODNET side performance just based on my unit being mounted higher on a 14th floor balcony of a 15 story building, I still average without looking at it all the time throughout the day is that you need at least 28 satellites on average or more to earn GEODNET. I’ve read some things on areas in the U.S. regardless of location, satellites are sometimes shutdown for several reasons.

But regardless, the replacement MGW310 has been working well back to my my original optimal standards on Wingbits, if not better. On that note, I know Hyfix has been producing/shipping to distributers like Helium as soon as they have a new batch to send. I may have gotten fortunate or just one of the earlier ones to submit a failure request alonf with my Wingbits ticket provinng the troubleshooting along with the Wingbits team. That may help too if you have a ticket just by chatting with Wingbits, even though it’s a bot to start, it’s an impressive bot. But eventually working through it with the bot help, the chat went to a direct representative (it is a little time consuming, and take screenshots of the graph1090 and tar1090 graphs before and after).

Important for others maybe not you since it seems you are just waiting at this point for a replacement. Because part of the troubleshooting is a factory reset, and all previous graphs are not stored unless you had a previous way of storing the information or just hanging on to old screenshots of the graphs, showing/proving when the unit failed. The built in LNA was my cause on Wingbits.

Whenever you do get your replacement, all I did was make sure the antenna base was hand tight along with the connector, and also take pictures of the internal connection pin of the antenna so you have a point of reference…because during troubleshooting on of my other issues is that the pin on the antenna was pushed in to far to make solid contact.

You can take the antenna apart although I don't recommend it. One, because it can make it worse and maybe void warranty unless instructed too by Wingbits/Hyfix. Second, it is very delicate and the only reason I did it and verified all the above was because I’m an aircraft mechanic and know how to be very careful with it and over-torquing issues.

That said, that is how I verified a pushes back pin and was able to correct that problem. I then still had the issue. Which essentially verified it was the known issue with the LNA’s. I’m almost to the one month point with the new unit and no issue yet, but as you mentioned, mine initial unit also failed at almost exactly one month. So will continue to monitor but good so far with the replacement.

@HeloFreak Glad to hear your experience was good. I think I am in the same boat where its just waiting on the batches to arrive. I found the technical support from Wingsbits was excellent and I had been shocked that it went from bot to person.

On the GEOD side of things I’ve been averaging 11-12 GEOD a day. Before the LNA failure I was in the top 10% for WINGS which is positive.

I had debated getting an external antenna to boost performance since I’ll be up on the roof yet again but I’ll probably settle with just adding a longer pole. I live up on a hill with houses behind me being higher up but still can view down into the town and other area’s from up high. So I think an extra 5-10 feet would be perfect. (also why I mull the additional antenna over)

For anyone wanting to get into the weeds I found the technical manual especially informative https://docs.wingbits.com/get-started/hardware-needed/theoretical-range-of-coverage

^^This section on how to find out your theoretical range to compare with real range helped show if something was in the way.

@leviaton I thought about the 5.5DB antenna but decided to stay with factory. I’m a replacement mgw310. It’s working and I have good range. a different antenna needs a little more hacking of connectors cables and mounts. so I’m staying stock The higher the better is all. Overall I don’t know how much more I’ll get to increase the numbers.

@leviaton this comes in multiple styles from material to length, just make sure then thread coarseness and width match the spec’s to the original. You can get creative using custom clamps to wood boards so you don’t have to drill into walls that you don’t want to damage (really not are to repair but i get it) angle mount you can make or buy. or saftey wire/zip tie the pole in place of you can’t hard mount it. Just depends on your needs. And you can always tape up the unused length to match a color scheme if desired to blend in. But I hat bought this previously, and now use it in for my WB200 in a different hex but will be getting another for my MGW310 hex. They are relatively, if not really cheap. You can get couplers and whatever else to extend out the side for either more support or mounting another device like a weather device.. But thread and width are import to note in the spec’s…I looked it up it’s on Hyfix’s manual for your verification….but it’s 5/8 inch coarse threaded in whatever length you need, and and cut to fit if you you a hack saw or hackzall. Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-5-8-in-x-10-ft-Zinc-Plated-Steel-Coarse-Threaded-Rod-03137/332734306

@HeloFreak Just as an update my miner arrived and was installed 20 days ago now. So it was down from Aug 31 all the way till Oct 16th