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