January 2017 - PSDR - mailman.hamwan.org

We got our grant!
by Ed Morin 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

The City of Redmond ARES group was just awarded a grant to create a small ("phase-I") wireless backbone between five key city locations as well as potentially two links to HamWAN if we can make the links work. Signal strength has been an issue, but Bart assures me we haven't been trying hard enough... ;-) I think our coming summer is going to be busy! :-)

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VOTE: Extra batteries for Baldi
by Bart Kus 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hello, We had another power outage @ Baldi today. This site is very important to the network since it routes up to 140Mbit of internet to the rest of the network. Some of you may recall we also replaced the UPS there this summer to help us deal with the bad power. However it looks like the built-in batteries aren't large enough to sustain us through the longer outages. I'd like to expand the site's runtime by a factor of 17 by adding an external battery bank. I'd also like to use AGM batteries so that they last longer and don't require any maintenance. The cost of this will be $500 for the batteries, and then some small amount for wires + connectors (< $100), which can be purchased under the discretionary spending bylaw. So, this spending request is for the $500 battery cost only. I'd like to have this funded from project-specific donations and not drain our existing funds. If you'd like to donate to this specific project, please let me know in a direct email reply (no need to spam the list). Thanks, --Bart

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Access Point
by Tom Hayward 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

As far as I know, the Mikrotik RB Metal 5SHPn only comes in an international version, and isn't marked such, so maybe you are confused about models. Take a look at the Client Hardware page for a list of antenna/modem combinations known to work: https://hamwan.org/Standards/Component%20Engineering/Client%20Hardware.html Where international variants are required, they are notated and the purchase links go to the correct version. I'd recommend a MIMO dish and modem if you are going to be linking to Haystack. If you're aiming for the Capitol Park or Snohomish County DEM sites, those won't benefit from MIMO but could if we ever upgrade them. Tom On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:17 PM, dspeed(a)4speeds.net <dspeed(a)4speeds.net> wrote: > Greetings! > > Can anybody tell me if the Mikrotek Metal linked to on the HamWAN opening > web page should be the US or the International model? > > I'm considering trying to link in from Finn Hill on 5ghz. Vegetation is the > challenge, but I think I may have a shot. Any advice/assistance > appreciated. > > Dave > K7DLS > > > > _______________________________________________ > PSDR mailing list > PSDR(a)hamwan.org > http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr >

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Access Point
by dspeed＠4speeds.net 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Greetings! Can anybody tell me if the Mikrotek Metal linked to on the HamWAN opening web page should be the US or the International model? I'm considering trying to link in from Finn Hill on 5ghz. Vegetation is the challenge, but I think I may have a shot. Any advice/assistance appreciated. Dave K7DLS

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Questions...
by George Migliarini 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Name: George Migliarini Call: AC6RB City: Laguna Hills, California Hello is any network in Orange Country, California my city is Laguna Hills. Thank You George AC6RB

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Can I get the link added to our website
by George Migliarini 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Any hamwan in orange country, California? George AC6RB -----Original Message----- From: PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Fields Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 9:09 AM To: psdr(a)hamwan.org Subject: [HamWAN PSDR] Can I get the link added to our website On the http://hamwan.org/Standards/Certification.html page, can we get a link to http://flscg.org and mention we're covering the entire bay area? Thanks, -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR(a)hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr

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Can I get the link added to our website
by Bryan Fields 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

On the http://hamwan.org/Standards/Certification.html page, can we get a link to http://flscg.org and mention we're covering the entire bay area? Thanks, -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net

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