Hello PSDR! First a brief introduction. I have been a Ham operator for over 15 years. During the day I am a personal computer network and systems administrator. At my current place of employment we extensively use the MikroTik line of switches and routers. I purchased a MikroTik LHG 5 dish about 18 months ago. Made a few attempts to get connected, then other personal projects took priority. I live in Kenmore. (47.743601, -122.259885 if anyone has a suggestion regarding which way I should point my antenna in my next attempt). Possibly as soon as this weekend I'm going to try and get connected again. My primary reason for this message: I am a member of the Northshore Emergency Management Coalition (NEMCo) which supports emergency communications for City of Kenmore, Lake Forest Park, local Fire stations, and the Northshore Utility District. We are looking into ways (independent of the Internet, and land lines) to transfer larger files (pictures, resource reports, supply requests) between the various operations centers in and around Kenmore. We currently have 1200 baud winlink in place. One thing we're researching is the use of the HamWan technology to setup our own WAN between these buildings. Before investing in the equipment we'd like to conduct some site tests between the buildings. To that end I was wondering if anyone out there has a spare antenna/radio that we could borrow. We would need it for a few weeks as we setup the experiments on the weekends and evenings. We have to arrange building and roof access with the employees of the various agencies. Our secondary goal in the project would be to connect at least one of these locations to the Puget Sound Ring (if possible). The city Kenmore is kind of in a hole relative to the surrounding terrain. We have access to a water town on Finn Hill for a 70cm repeater that we might be able to take advantage of. I appreciate any feedback, and certainly any equipment loan offer. If the price is right a couple of us in the team might consider a purchase if someone has extra equipment they'd like to sell. 73 Kevin Kutzera N7KJK