Good PR. :) Let the success stories keep compounding. --Bart On 11/01/2013 02:09 PM, Rob Salsgiver wrote:
Back in mid-October we performed a link test from Providence Colby Hospital to Snohomish County DEM at Paine Field.
Last Saturday we performed a test from another Snohomish County hospital -- Valley General in Monroe -- also to Paine Field.
This shot was a little more challenging due to trees immediately across the block in the RF path. After scouting around the available roof space, we were able to find a spot on the south side of the hospital with an open path.
Unfortunately we didn't bring a tripod along, but we "made do" with a ladder to help steady the hand-held dish. With this "Redneck Tripod" we were able to peak the signal at about -64 to -65. Nowhere nearly as good as the Providence link, but still plenty good enough to get a 6Mbit throughput test up and down. I expect that a more solid tripod will give us an even better signal.
This gives us two key EMCOMM facilities with good connection capabilities to HamWAN.
Our next step is to put together a presentation to the respective administrations to get buy-off on installing HamWAN at those facilities.
Thanks to Dave Williamson (WA7DGW), Steve Elli (KF7LKA), and Bart (AE7SJ) for tagging along during the adventure and helping out.
Cheers,
Rob Salsgiver -- NR3O
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