[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: New site @ East Tiger Mountain - phase 1

[Bart Kus]

Neither waveguard nor the modems show as having any stock @ Streakwave.  
I'm looking at a May 30th 2nd trip to deploy.

--Bart


On 05/19/2015 01:46 PM, Ryan Elliott Turner wrote:
> My streakwave account rep just informed me for their waveguards:
> "The Wav Guard kits by Kam Fab are backordered and we have no ETA for 
> new stock. Minimum ETA at this point is 6-8 weeks."
>
> Bummer. We can still save some money moving the RB912UAG-5HPnD to 
> Streakwave most likely, but not quite as much.
>
> Also, interestingly enough, we in Memphis are ordering 2 sectors at 
> some point today/tomorrow. I wonder if in the future we should 
> coordinate and try to consolidate orders to work on discounts.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Ryan Elliott Turner 
> <ryan.e.t at gmail.com <mailto:ryan.e.t at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'd like to propose that we consolidate and purchase more from
>     Streakwave. Move the waveguard and RB912UAG-5HPnD to them. Right
>     now, with shipping those cost $293.81 in your proposal. The quote
>     I got from them including shipping is about a monthly member's fee
>     cheaper. I'll forward to the board.
>
>     On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us
>     <mailto:me at bartk.us>> wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I'm pleased to announce we have installed a working link to
>         East Tiger Mountain @ 3000ft ASL (47.488198°, -121.946706°).
>
>         The uplink is coming from the Tukwila datacenter and is just
>         using single-polarization hardware right now because it was on
>         hand.  We should upgrade this link hardware to dual polarity,
>         but I'd like to wait until the Ubiquity IsoBeam product hits
>         the market before we do that.  The present performance is
>         acceptable at about 50Mbit average.  So this link upgrade is
>         being skipped in the phase 1 spend here.
>
>         We have also recently replaced the Westin router with a
>         virtualized router that offers far greater performance, so I
>         was able to re-use the RB2011 hardware from the Westin to run
>         ETiger. This spend doesn't need to happen at this site. Yay
>         re-use!
>
>         I would like to try linking ETiger with the Snohomish DEM
>         ("Paine") site.  Since the viability of this link is unknown,
>         I think we should do a test using hardware on-hand.  If the
>         test shows the signals are good, I'll roll the proper hardware
>         request into a phase 2 spend.
>
>         We do need to get Sector 3 installed up there though.  It
>         would be immediately useful, and would replace our Mirrormont
>         site, which is only 1500ft ASL, and has much slower
>         connectivity. Here are all the parts to make Sector 3 happen:
>
>         *Description**
>         * 	*Price**
>         * 	*Qty**
>         * 	*Subtotal**
>         *
>         AM-5G19-120 sector antenna @ Streakwave
>         	$117.00
>         	1
>         	$117.00
>         Streakwave Shipping
>         	$23.19
>         	1
>         	$23.19
>         RF Element SBX-S-CC-2SMA shielding outdoor radio enclosure @
>         ISP Supplies
>         	$35.90
>         	1
>         	$35.90
>         WaveGuard AM5G19 RF shield @ ISP Supplies
>         	$44.99
>         	1
>         	$44.99
>         ISP Supplies Shipping
>         	$24.89
>         	1
>         	$24.89
>         RB912UAG-5HPnD modem @ Baltic Networks
>         	$69.00
>         	1
>         	$69.00
>         Baltic Networks Shipping
>         	$14.74
>         	1
>         	$14.74
>         Mounting hardware @ local stores
>         	$80.00
>         	1
>         	$80.00
>         GRAND TOTAL
>         	
>         	
>         	$409.71
>
>
>         I'm including 2 antenna mounts in the mounting hardware
>         category.  One for the sector, and one for the test link to
>         SnoDEM.
>
>         We'll also need to find a special short-depth server to use @
>         ETiger.  I've been doing some research on this but haven't
>         found anything appropriate yet.  Let me know if you have
>         something or know of something cheap that still provides
>         remote KVM with virtual media support. All the racks @ ETiger
>         are two-post with very little depth available, so normal
>         servers won't work.
>
>         Our present cash balance is about $340.  If you recall the
>         last spend request (for the 900MHz test project), I was able
>         to save some money by borrowing the expensive antenna hardware
>         instead of buying it.  We only purchased the two 900MHz
>         MikroTik modems, and we also have two Ubiquiti 900MHz modems
>         on loan so we can do true A/B testing.  This testing will
>         likely use the Mirrormont site, although SnoDEM would be
>         preferred.
>
>         Board, please vote on this spend request. Mailing list
>         members, feel free to comment before the board votes.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         --Bart
>
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