[HamWAN PSDR] Client nodes in Clark County

[S. Aberle]

Thanks Tom!  Marc cannot make the local meeting this Saturday, so asked 
me to cover it.  I just want to go into it as prepared as I can be for 
answering questions.

Personally, I'm waiting for the current cloud layer to clear to check my 
path to Larch Mountain around the trees a couple yards over.

Steve


Tom Hayward wrote on 06/14/2018 09:01 AM:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Yes, the Larch Mountain site is now online. We still need to visit Baw Faw
> to re-aim the dish toward Larch before the backbone between Portland and
> Seattle will work well, but the Larch end is complete. I haven't generated
> the updated coverage map and added it to the website yet. Areas of Clark
> and Multnomah Counties with a clear view of Larch should be able to connect.
> 
> Maybe Marc is available for your meeting? It's quite a drive for us Puget
> Sound area folk, and I'll be out of town this weekend anyway.
> 
> If you go tohttp://hamwan.org/  you'll find a link at the top of the page
> "Get Connected". This links to all the pages you'll need to buy and setup a
> client.
> 
> http://hamwan.org/Standards/Component%20Engineering/Client%20Hardware.html
> Shows a number of tested hardware combinations, and has some details about
> ordering the international versions which allow you to use the 5.9 GHz ham
> band.
> 
> http://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html
> Has configuration instructions. There are some notes at the bottom about
> one way to connect it to your home network. This part is really open ended
> and can vary quite a bit depending on what you want to do specifically.
> 
> Another antenna was recommended in the chat room yesterday:
> https://smile.amazon.com/Altelix-Antenna-Ubiquiti-RocketM5-MikroTik/dp/B079QGF3S2/
> Pair with a BaseBox5:
> https://smile.amazon.com/Mikrotik-BaseBox-RB912UAG-5HPnD-OUT-Outdoor-Wireless/dp/B00GA0DMDQ/
> I haven't tried this combination yet myself, but it looks good and we'll
> probably add it to the Client Hardware page alongside the others in time.
> 
> Aside from an antenna and modem (or integrated combination), you'll need
> outdoor ethernet cable and shielded connectors. We use Ubiquiti TC-Pro and
> TC-Con[nectors]. I think Marc has a reel of this he might be willing to
> sell lengths of.
> 
> Tom KD7LXL
> 
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:18 AM S. Aberle<psdr-list at aberle.net>  wrote:
> 
>> Marc/KD7RYY mentioned on a local Clark County net that the Larch
>> Mountain site was installed and linked this past Saturday (6/9) ... but
>> it doesn't yet show up on the coverage map on the website.
>>
>> There is a Clark County Digital Group (http://www.w7aia.org/digital.htm)
>> meeting this coming Saturday (6/16).  Is there a possibility of a HamWAN
>> guru attending?  If not, I would like to take detailed information to
>> that meeting on what it takes in the way of client-side equipment to
>> connect into HamWAN.
>>
>>   From the website, it appears that these two integrated dish antenna and
>> modem solutions are current/recommended:
>> MikroTik RBDynaDishG-5HacD
>> MikroTik RBLHG-5nD
>>
>> What other hardware bits and pieces are needed for a full client BOM?
>> What modem configuration information and networking basics will they
>> need to know?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve