[HamWAN PSDR] Bellevue Site Survey?

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

Why not put up three more radios and make it a cell site?  Good sites 
are hard to come by, and redundancy is a good thing.

-- Dean

On 2014-06-12 08:49, Tom Hayward wrote:
> John,
>
> That site is great. You have your pick of cell sites because it has 
> line of sight to Captiol Park (Capitol Hill, Seattle), Baldi, Paine 
> (Snohomish County EOC), and Haystack. Capitol Park should be very 
> strong. I would not waste time with a survey; just bring everything 
> needed for an install on the first trip.
>
> Here are the models:
> Capitol Park
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> Baldi
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> Haystack
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> Paine
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> Tom KD7LXL
>
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> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:39 AM, John D. Hays <john at hays.org 
> <mailto:john at hays.org>> wrote:
>
>     K7LWH (Lake Washington Ham Club) has a repeater site atop Lincoln
>     tower in Bellevue.  At last night's board meeting the topic came
>     up of hooking the site to HamWan (as a client).  Looking at the
>     coverage map, it looks like the ground level near the building is
>     marginal, but the antenna would be atop a 450' tall building.
>
>     Is there anyone who would be willing to do a site survey with
>     antenna and radio to evaluate if this would be a reliable site?
>      The club will buy and install equipment once the site is surveyed
>     and they obtain permission (very likely).
>
>     This link would be to support D-STAR (including a RP2D node) and
>     echolink in the repeater rack.
>

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