Patent ID: 7236705

Claim:
A method of installing a new point-to-point communications transceiver in a network of existing point-to-point communications transceivers, comprising the steps of: positioning a new transceiver in a line of sight to at least one existing transceiver; at a predetermined time, said new transceiver performing a first sweep over a first predetermined range to detect a signal from said existing transceiver; at said predetermined time synchronously with said new transceiver, said existing transceiver performing a second sweep over a second predetermined range to detect a signal from said new transceiver; upon the completion of said first sweep of said new transceiver, said new transceiver returning to a position of maximum detected signal strength; upon the completion of said second sweep of said existing transceiver, said existing transceiver returning to a position of maximum detected signal strength; and if no signal is detected by said new transceiver or said existing transceiver, changing orientations of said new and existing transceivers in opposite directions with respect to the line of sight.