May 2016 - PSDR - mailman.hamwan.org

Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Volunteers for Capitol Peak on May 28th? (Saturday)
by liltodd65 26 May '16

26 May '16

I am in Lake City surrounded by hills. Is there a map of stations I can access? <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us> </div><div>Date:05/26/2016 9:25 AM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr(a)hamwan.org> </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Volunteers for Capitol Peak on May 28th? (Saturday) </div><div> </div>On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Todd Lilleness <liltodd65(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My name is Todd Lilleness,KG7VRV. I am interested in equipment I need to > participate with HamWAN. What is the range of this equipment? I in Lake > City,Seattle. Thank you for your help. Range isn't really the right question to ask. The biggest limiting factor is line of sight. Anything solid will block the signal, so for the most part HamWAN only works when you can see the tower/mountain it's on. The coverage map here: https://hamwan.org/t/Coverage+Map shows areas in red that are calculated to have line-of-sight to a HamWAN site from an antenna located 30 ft above ground (typical 2-story building plus mast height). Zoom in on Lake City to see what you might get. I can help you with more detailed analysis if it looks promising. Once you have line of sight, range is 100 km or so. Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR(a)hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Volunteers for Capitol Peak on May 28th? (Saturday)
by Aaron Taggert 26 May '16

26 May '16

I do not have Ham license, but I am interested in the HamWAN project. I used to work for a wireless ISP and we did essentially what you are doing with unlicensed spectrum. I might be able to help on Saturday. I will likely get my Ham cert so I can play with you guys. I live here: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.3036747,-122.648158,15z I have this speed: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/3988155

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Volunteers for Capitol Peak on May 28th? (Saturday)
by Bart Kus 23 May '16

23 May '16

Hi all, We got 1 new sector installed this past weekend @ Capitol Peak. It's Sector 2 facing 120 degrees which covers Olympia and Chehalis. The home page network map is not yet updated to reflect this new coverage zone. High winds, cold and rain prevented the installation of any further equipment. We have 1 dish and 1 sector left to install at the site. If you'd like to volunteer this upcoming Saturday, please reply to me directly (not the list). Ideally I'd like to have another climber so we can finish the site quickly on Saturday (and for safety / immediate rescue reasons), and I need to have a person capable of operating the network to give signal readings for dish alignment. If you think you can operate routers, please get in touch with me and we can add you to the network operator pool. The network person doesn't necessarily need to be on site, but does need to be on the radio. Thanks, --Bart

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HamWAN South Camera Featured on Local News
by Bobby Lacey 20 May '16

20 May '16

Our local news wx guy pick up our time-lapse taken during yesterday’s storms in south Georgia and featured it on last night’s news. Sorry for the screener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6_zXyYjbc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6_zXyYjbc> Original time-lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OeozBXehiM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OeozBXehiM> HamWAN saves lives!!! 73 Bobby KF4GTA

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Any volunteers for Capitol Peak this Saturday (5/21)?
by Bart Kus 16 May '16

16 May '16

Please let me know directly (not the list) if you're interested. We need to install 2 more sectors, 1 more dish, and then get all the cabling clamped down. Thanks, --Bart

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Triangle sectors are on the air
by Bart Kus 09 May '16

09 May '16

Hello, Just wanted to let everyone know the Victoria crew recently installed the sector antennas @ the Triangle site (Victoria, BC). We have updated our main coverage map to reflect their radiation patterns. These aren't optimally aligned, but at least they should provide service to Port Angeles and San Juan Island. We'll update the map if anything changes with the sector angles. In the meantime, do we know any Port Angeles or San Juan hams that could give this new part of the network a try? --Bart

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Baldi-S3 has been temporarily changed to non-standard freq
by Bart Kus 07 May '16

07 May '16

Hello, In support of CapitolPeak deployment, Baldi-S3 is now on 5560MHz with a 20MHz bandwidth. This will be either reverted tomorrow, or stay in place for a while. If you have devices on it, please update them. --Bart

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Gold-S2 has been temporarily changed to non-standard freq
by Bart Kus 07 May '16

07 May '16

Hello, In support of CapitolPeak deployment, Gold-S2 is now on 5670MHz with a 20MHz bandwidth. This will be either reverted tomorrow, or stay in place until next Saturday. If you have devices on it, please update them. --Bart

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Evergreen Hospital / Monroe
by Rob Salsgiver 06 May '16

06 May '16

Greetings all, Today I performed a re-test of connectivity at Evergreen Hospital in Monroe. Last year we were able to connect around/through trees west to SnoDEM @ Paine Field. Today's connection was a wide-open shot straight to Haystack. Back then Valley General Hospital was going through merger & acquisition growing pains and there wasn't much interest in HamWAN at that particular time. Last month after reaching out things have moved along very well and we appear to have very good support. An antenna location has been identified and they will be installing CAT5 from the roof to radio room in the next 2-3 weeks. This should give us time to have the pieces in place to connect Evergreen to SnoDEM and Providence for the upcoming Cascadia Rising drill in June. I hope to still add Everett Clinic this month as well. This will give us a long-overdue, good working core of EM-types to expand off of following the drill. Each installation will have a local EOC hotspot, VOIP phone, and laptop or desktop PC for web/email access. Thanks to Nigel, Bart, Tom, Ryan, Cory and the rest of the folks who have helped with VOIP, information, and other guidance to help make it happen. More as it develops. Cheers, Rob

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VOTE: High quality PTZ camera
by Bart Kus 05 May '16

05 May '16

Hello, Several of us have been talking about putting high quality PTZ cameras at our tower sites for people to enjoy. Survey the surrounding country side, get tactical awareness in emergencies, look for antenna damage remotely, etc. I'd personally love to have 1 good PTZ per tower. I think it would also be a very popular past time, and one of the killer apps that HamWAN can deliver. Good quality cams are expensive however. Here are the requirements as I see them: 1) Outdoor rated 2) No exposed moving joints that can freeze (domed design) 3) Heater to melt ice 4) IP encoding, not analog 5) 1080p or better 6) 30x optical zoom or better 7) Power over Ethernet so we can have only 1 cable run 8) Support OSX + Windows (Linux optional) 9) RTSP streamable so we can re-broadcast the stream to many people at once I found what I think is a decent cam that fits these requirements. It's the Q-See QCN8035Z <http://www.q-see.com/1080p-ip-ptz-camera-qcn8035z-1>. It costs about $670. Any opinions on this? I'm inclined to support such a vote. --Bart

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