I was lead for Cayuse team and I will second Randy's comments. The ease of communications this provided and the far better situational awareness for the Ops Center were really appreciated. -Doug-, KD7DK On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Randy Neals <randy@neals.ca> wrote:
Tom, Casey & HamWAN,
A quick note to thank HamWAN and all others that had a hand in the Crystal HamWAN Sector installation, as well as general support of the HamWAN backbone.
We very successfully used the new sector at Crystal Mountain to support RAMROD Cycling Event operations in Cayuse Pass yesterday.
Cayuse Pass is, as the name suggests, a pass between various mountains in Mt Ranier National Park/Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. I generally has no cell coverage, and until this year, RAMROD used Winlink over HF to move data.
The connection required an intermediate node at Sunrise Point, which then had line of sight down a slot in the rock to Cayuse Pass. We used DynaDish5's for all 3 radios. We achieved about 3Mbps up and 3Mpbs down.
We ran the following applications over the network at Cayuse. 1. Reporting rider RFID data back to the RAMROD Ops Center/computing system. 2. VoIP phones between Cayuse and the RAMROD Ops Center. 3. Live HD video stream of Cayuse Pass operations which was used in the Ops Center.
Obviously moving from 300 bps over HF to 3 million bps afforded some additional applications which were well received by RAMROD organizers.
Here's a map of the RAMROD course. http://redmondcyclingclub.org/images/ramrod_coursemap_inspiration.jpg
Thanks, Randy, W3RWN