Today one of the things going on in "HamWAN Land" today was a link test from Providence Colby Hospital to the site at SnoCounty DEM at Paine Field. All initial propagation maps and other research suggested that it should essentially be a "no brainer" install and link, and the short version is that it was! A big thanks to Dave Williamson (WA7DGW) for coming along to help, and to Bart (AE7SJ) for "tagging along" to look over our shoulders. I'll leave any technical corrections to Bart, but the layman's version follows: After resolving a couple obvious faux-pas on my part and correcting one "undocumented configuration" issue due to a unique temporary network setup issue at the Paine site, the modem came online immediately after the config was tweaked. A few minutes later and the dish was peaked with a signal level of -46 to -47. RF link throughput testing netted us 9.6Mbit down and 10.4 up - nice! A few more clicks and tweaks and we were looking at Google and Youtube videos on the netbook. All in all, a VERY nice attempt with VERY good results. We decided to attempt a shot from Valley General hospital in Monroe, but what looked like a workable ground-level path on Google Earth turned out to be otherwise once we were onsite. After a brief walk-around we agreed that a roof-shot from the hospital would very likely succeed. We will work with getting access to the facility to confirm this in the coming week or two. There's a lot more I could bore everyone with, but suffice it to say it was a good day. The next step is to setup a meeting to introduce the administration at Providence to the capabilities of HamWAN and our testing results. There is potentially more but we will proceed one step at a time. Thanks to all who have worked so hard over the summer and contributed to the build-out of the HamWAN core. Your efforts definitely showed today. Cheers, Rob Salsgiver - NR3O