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    If you want to try to PING the ID-1 at Snohomish County DEM, try the
    following settings:<br>
    <br>
    In your ID-1:<br>
    <ul>
      <li>Mode: DD</li>
      <li>Frequency: 1297.750<br>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <br>
    In your router:<br>
    <ul>
      <li>IP address: 172.20.10.2 (this is unique for you)<br>
      </li>
      <li>Netmask: 255.255.0.0</li>
      <li>Gateway: 172.20.20.254</li>
      <li>DNS servers: (doesn't matter at this point)<br>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <br>
    Let me know how it goes ...<br>
    <br>
    -- Dean<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-05-26 11:14, Bob wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It
            was over four years ago that I started this project.  At the
            time my knowledge of networking was 2 of a scale of 10. 
            Today I might be a 3.5; still have a lot to learn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Initially
            I had a XP lap top connected directly to the ID-1. It was
            configured the same as the router below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
            started by pinging the gateway.  LWHC has a number of IP
            addresses assigned, not all will reply to a pings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
            use “ping 10.0.0.1”  (basic garden variety ping) to
            determine if I had a usable path.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
            then “ping Comcast.net” and got an average reply time of
            243ms through the ID-1 and K7LWH-DD.  This compares to a
            Concast.net ping using my commercial (Comcast) account of
            98ms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
            then connected to Bing.com, Google.com and ARRL.org through
            K7LWH-DD using Internet Explorer.  The performance,
            subjectively, was a little better than a dial up connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
            stopped most work on our high speed data project in early
            2012.   I reactivated it as a feasibility study rather than
            an implementation project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
            now have the ID-1 connected to a router.  With a Windows7
            computer connected to the router, I can “ping 10.0.0.1” with
            average times between 110 and 120 ms.  Internet Explore does
            not connect to Bing, Google, nor ARRL.org  and Packlink
            indicates that it cannot find a path to a Winlink CMS but
            somehow messages get to the CMS via telnet connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Anyhow,
            at least for now, we have an alternate path to get emails
            out of Kirkland if we lose Internet at the City Hall.  I am
            changing the focus of high speed data transfer away from the
            ID-1 to HamWAN and  NW-MESH.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bob
            – KE7JL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p><br>
            </o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
                PSDR [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org">mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean
                Gibson AE7Q<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 26, 2014 9:01 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Puget Sound Data Ring<br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [HamWAN PSDR] 1.2GHz to Paine [was:
                44.x.x.x HamWAN network at Paine]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Ah, I'd like
          the IP address you are PINGing.  What do you type after the
          command "ping"?<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">On 2014-05-25 10:22, Bob wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
              router is setup as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">         
              IP: 10.136.19.168</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">         
              Sub Mask: 255.0.0.0</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">         
              Gateway: 10.0.0.1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">         
              DNS: 10.0.0.2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">         
              Alt: 10.0.0.1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bob</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <div>
            <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF
              1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
                  PSDR [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org">mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org</a>]
                  <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean Gibson AE7Q<br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:33 PM<br>
                  <b>To:</b> Puget Sound Data Ring<br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [HamWAN PSDR] 1.2GHz to Paine
                  [was: 44.x.x.x HamWAN network at Paine]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">When you
            attempt to ping using the K7LWH/DD module, what IP address
            do you specify?<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">On 2014-05-24 14:36, Bob wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
            <p class="MsoNormal">Dean,<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Here are some observations and
              conclusion that I have come up with in adding the ID-1 to
              the Kirkland Emergency Communications Team’s tool box.  I
              have done a number of tests of the ID-1 from various
              locations in Kirkland in both the Digital Data (DD) mode
              and the Digital Voice (DV) mode.  I tested simplex paths
              (ID-1 to ID-1) and paths to the Lake Washington Ham Club
              (LWHC) DSTAR DV repeater and DD gateway nodes in Bellevue.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt
                  "Times New Roman"">      </span></span><!--[endif]-->There
              are a few locations in Kirkland that have direct visual
              line of site to LWHC Gateway in Belleview.  From those
              locations, pings are consistently returned in 100 to 200ms
              with an occasional loss.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoListParagraph"
              style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
                style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt
                  "Times New Roman"">      </span></span><!--[endif]-->We
              have two location (Stations 22 and 25) are not visual but
              according to Radio Mobile modeling skim the terrain.  At
              these sights no ping are returned.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoListParagraph"
              style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
                style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt
                  "Times New Roman"">      </span></span><!--[endif]-->At
              my home QTH (Lat: 47.694 Lon: -122.2161) I do not have a
              visual of the LWHC Gateway, but I get occasional pings
              returned.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoListParagraph"
              style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
                style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt
                  "Times New Roman"">      </span></span><!--[endif]-->John
              Hays loan me a 1.23 GHz directional antenna. With the
              directional antenna I detected two paths to the gateway. 
              One was off a condo about 180 degrees from the gateway
              about a mile away; the other was off the NOAA building
              four miles awat at Sand Point about 15 degrees clockwise
              from the gateway.  This indicates the presents of
              multi-paths that could be interfering with the data even
              with good signal strength.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoListParagraph"
              style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
                style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt
                  "Times New Roman"">      </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
              will also confirm the DV mode is more robust than the DD
              mode, but it too is affect by multi-path.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal">About 2 weeks ago I brought the ID-1 on
              line to serve as an alternate path to the Winlink CMS.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Bob – KE7JL<o:p></o:p><br>
              <br>
              <o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
                    PSDR [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org">mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org</a>]
                    <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean Gibson AE7Q<br>
                    <b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 24, 2014 10:20 AM<br>
                    <b>To:</b> Puget Sound Data Ring<br>
                    <b>Subject:</b> [HamWAN PSDR] 1.2GHz to Paine [was:
                    44.x.x.x HamWAN network at Paine]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Scott Honaker and I have moved forward
              on this project:<o:p></o:p></p>
            <ol start="1" type="1">
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4
                level1 lfo5">We have installed a gateway (Linksys
                BEFSR41) between the ID-1 and the internal ARES/RACES
                subnet (not 44.x.x.x) of the DEM.<o:p></o:p></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4
                level1 lfo5">We have installed a Digi "AnywhereUSB" box
                to give us remote access to the ID-1's USB port, and
                thus remote control of the ID-1 radio.  This not only
                allows multiple use of the ID-1 (which has useful 1.2GHz
                FM and digital voice modes as well as Ethernet data),
                but provides for remote frequency agility and a
                diagnostic capability.  This works beautifully (eg, to
                search for and use a low-noise frequency)!<o:p></o:p></li>
            </ol>
            <p>Unfortunately, what does not work very well, is the RF
              portion of the connection.  PINGs failed at a rate of over
              99% when using the 1.2GHz antenna at the 70 ft level on
              the tower, so we swapped the antenna with the one used for
              the Icom 1.2GHz repeater (which wasn't seeing any action
              anyway) at 100 ft.  That made a "dramatic" improvement, as
              PINGs now only fail at a 98% rate (depends upon the time
              of day, etc)!<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p>Antenna comparison between 1.2GHz and 5.9 GHz for the two
              sites:<o:p></o:p></p>
            <ol start="1" type="1">
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
                level1 lfo8">On 1.2GHz, both antennas are
                omni-directional.<o:p></o:p></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
                level1 lfo8">At the DEM, the 1.2GHz antenna is now at
                the 100' level, whereas the 5.9GHz antenna is at 150'.<o:p></o:p></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
                level1 lfo8">At my home, the 1.2GHz antenna is about 10'
                above the 5.9GHz antenna, and it's on the same
                line-of-sight path.<o:p></o:p></li>
            </ol>
            <p>Note that voice communication between the two sites using
              the two ID-1 radios, is fine (there is a slight bit of
              noise on FM).<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p>The big difference, in my opinion?  I'll bet that the
              wireless protocol used by the MikroTik radios includes an
              aggressive error correction and retry protocol, whereas
              the ID-1 is like a piece of Ethernet cable, and thus
              relies on the standard TCP/IP retry mechanism.  The TCP/IP
              protocols, while "unreliable" in the technical sense of
              the term, require a higher overall reliability than a
              typical raw wireless connection.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p>What this says (and I'm a bit surprised to note this), is
              that sites considering using ID-1 radios for data
              communications, may find that even with the tighter siting
              requirements of 5.9GHz, that the latter may be more
              successful (whether or not part of HamWAN).  In addition
              to being a lower-cost radio with a much higher data rate,
              the MikroTik radios offer a built-in router, which can
              obviate the need for a separate router.<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p>-- Dean<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">ps: The callsign and digital
              code filtering features of D-Star that we previously
              discussed, are not available (greyed out in the software)
              for digital <b>data</b> mode.  Huh?  Another fine example
              of software of the "seven last words" of poor program
              design: <b>"Why would you want to do that?"</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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