Triangle sectors are on the air
Hello, Just wanted to let everyone know the Victoria crew recently installed the sector antennas @ the Triangle site (Victoria, BC). We have updated our main coverage map to reflect their radiation patterns. These aren't optimally aligned, but at least they should provide service to Port Angeles and San Juan Island. We'll update the map if anything changes with the sector angles. In the meantime, do we know any Port Angeles or San Juan hams that could give this new part of the network a try? --Bart
I was going to bring a station with me to the San Juan club meeting next week and give it a try. K7UDR wants to drive up to the Mt. Constitution site and see if we can get into the network from there. I have all the pieces, I just need to wire up battery connection for the PoE adapter. I'll take pictures and post a trip report.... Kenny On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:
Hello,
Just wanted to let everyone know the Victoria crew recently installed the sector antennas @ the Triangle site (Victoria, BC). We have updated our main coverage map to reflect their radiation patterns. These aren't optimally aligned, but at least they should provide service to Port Angeles and San Juan Island. We'll update the map if anything changes with the sector angles.
In the meantime, do we know any Port Angeles or San Juan hams that could give this new part of the network a try?
--Bart
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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Richards <richark@gmail.com> wrote:
I was going to bring a station with me to the San Juan club meeting next week and give it a try. K7UDR wants to drive up to the Mt. Constitution site and see if we can get into the network from there. I have all the pieces, I just need to wire up battery connection for the PoE adapter.
I'll take pictures and post a trip report....
Kenny, Here is your azimuth and signal strength prediction: Good luck! Tom
Kenny, you should also try to scan for SnoDEM-S1 and Haystack-S1 while you're up there. --Bart On 5/3/2016 2:57 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Richards <richark@gmail.com <mailto:richark@gmail.com>> wrote:
I was going to bring a station with me to the San Juan club meeting next week and give it a try. K7UDR wants to drive up to the Mt. Constitution site and see if we can get into the network from there. I have all the pieces, I just need to wire up battery connection for the PoE adapter.
I'll take pictures and post a trip report....
Kenny,
Here is your azimuth and signal strength prediction:
Good luck!
Tom
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That was going to be my plan..... :-) On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:
Kenny, you should also try to scan for SnoDEM-S1 and Haystack-S1 while you're up there.
--Bart
On 5/3/2016 2:57 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Richards < <richark@gmail.com> richark@gmail.com> wrote:
I was going to bring a station with me to the San Juan club meeting next week and give it a try. K7UDR wants to drive up to the Mt. Constitution site and see if we can get into the network from there. I have all the pieces, I just need to wire up battery connection for the PoE adapter.
I'll take pictures and post a trip report....
Kenny,
Here is your azimuth and signal strength prediction:
Good luck!
Tom
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Can I get SnoDEM and Haystack? I would love to take the guess work out of this whole process. :-) Thanks Kenny On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us> wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Richards <richark@gmail.com> wrote:
I was going to bring a station with me to the San Juan club meeting next week and give it a try. K7UDR wants to drive up to the Mt. Constitution site and see if we can get into the network from there. I have all the pieces, I just need to wire up battery connection for the PoE adapter.
I'll take pictures and post a trip report....
Kenny,
Here is your azimuth and signal strength prediction:
Good luck!
Tom
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Live the adventure, man... --Bart On 5/3/2016 4:43 PM, Kenny Richards wrote:
Can I get SnoDEM and Haystack?
I would love to take the guess work out of this whole process. :-)
Thanks Kenny
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us <mailto:tom@tomh.us>> wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Richards <richark@gmail.com <mailto:richark@gmail.com>> wrote: > I was going to bring a station with me to the San Juan club meeting next > week and give it a try. K7UDR wants to drive up to the Mt. Constitution site > and see if we can get into the network from there. I have all the pieces, I > just need to wire up battery connection for the PoE adapter. > > I'll take pictures and post a trip report....
Kenny,
Here is your azimuth and signal strength prediction:
Good luck!
Tom
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Bart, I am planning on being at the CCARC meeting on this Wednesday in Port Angles. I have a 24 dbi panel and an RB493 with a 5.8 radio card in it. what is the detail to connect to that cell and I can try to give you a report from port angles. Would like to have it pre-configured before I go to the meeting. I looked on the website but didn't see anything, could have overlooked it. 73 *Matthew Lawson* *KC7EQO* *442.100 + 100 Hz PL Blyn Mt Repeater* *http://www.qrz.com/db/KC7EQO/R <http://www.qrz.com/db/KC7EQO/R>* <http:///www.linkedin.com/in/mlawsonkc7eqo> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:
Hello,
Just wanted to let everyone know the Victoria crew recently installed the sector antennas @ the Triangle site (Victoria, BC). We have updated our main coverage map to reflect their radiation patterns. These aren't optimally aligned, but at least they should provide service to Port Angeles and San Juan Island. We'll update the map if anything changes with the sector angles.
In the meantime, do we know any Port Angeles or San Juan hams that could give this new part of the network a try?
--Bart
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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Lawson <kc7eqo@gmail.com> wrote:
Bart, I am planning on being at the CCARC meeting on this Wednesday in Port Angles. I have a 24 dbi panel and an RB493 with a 5.8 radio card in it. what is the detail to connect to that cell and I can try to give you a report from port angles. Would like to have it pre-configured before I go to the meeting. I looked on the website but didn't see anything, could have overlooked it.
The client configuration is here: https://hamwan.org/t/Client+Node+Configuration It has channel records for all the sectors and will scan to find them. In your case, if it can hear Triangle it will land on the Sector 2 channel. Tom
Thanks Tom, will see what and if I can do anything, worth a try! *Matthew Lawson* *KC7EQO* *442.100 + 100 Hz PL Blyn Mt Repeater* *http://www.qrz.com/db/KC7EQO/R <http://www.qrz.com/db/KC7EQO/R>* <http:///www.linkedin.com/in/mlawsonkc7eqo> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us> wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Lawson <kc7eqo@gmail.com> wrote:
Bart, I am planning on being at the CCARC meeting on this Wednesday in Port Angles. I have a 24 dbi panel and an RB493 with a 5.8 radio card in it. what is the detail to connect to that cell and I can try to give you a report from port angles. Would like to have it pre-configured before I go to the meeting. I looked on the website but didn't see anything, could have overlooked it.
The client configuration is here: https://hamwan.org/t/Client+Node+Configuration
It has channel records for all the sectors and will scan to find them. In your case, if it can hear Triangle it will land on the Sector 2 channel.
Tom
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Tom,I saw something about a frequency change for Gold Mountain. Are these in the script that you referenced, below?I have the trees cleared and now I have a beautiful, bare, aspen-tree microwave tower in my back yard. I have to mount the modem back into the kite mount.73 from Dan at K7MM(509) 330-6398 From: Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us> To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr@hamwan.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:01 AM Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Triangle sectors are on the air On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Lawson <kc7eqo@gmail.com> wrote: Bart, I am planning on being at the CCARC meeting on this Wednesday in Port Angles. I have a 24 dbi panel and an RB493 with a 5.8 radio card in it. what is the detail to connect to that cell and I can try to give you a report from port angles. Would like to have it pre-configured before I go to the meeting. I looked on the website but didn't see anything, could have overlooked it. The client configuration is here:https://hamwan.org/t/Client+Node+Configuration It has channel records for all the sectors and will scan to find them. In your case, if it can hear Triangle it will land on the Sector 2 channel. Tom _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Daniel Ransom via PSDR <psdr@hamwan.org> wrote:
Tom, I saw something about a frequency change for Gold Mountain. Are these in the script that you referenced, below? I have the trees cleared and now I have a beautiful, bare, aspen-tree microwave tower in my back yard. I have to mount the modem back into the kite mount.
No, I don't think the frequency change was documented anywhere other than Bart's email. It is a temporary hack Bart made so that the NetMetal (which can't tune 5 MHz channels) at Capitol Peak could connect to Gold-S2. If all goes as planned, it will revert to its standard frequency Saturday. Here's the line to add it to your config: /interface wireless channels add band=5ghz-onlyn comment="Temporary Gold-S2" frequency=5670 list=HamWAN name=GoldS2 width=20 Tom
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