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We have:<br>
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$46.76 in PayPal<br>
$901.33 in the bank<br>
($542.62) owed on the CC<br>
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--Bart<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/2015 10:41 AM, Ryan Elliott
Turner wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Can we get an update on financials? Idk what the
books look like currently.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Bart
Kus <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:me@bartk.us" target="_blank">me@bartk.us</a>></span>
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5.9GHz is awesome when it works. The speeds are great, and
it carries as far as the eye can see with very low ambient
noise floor. It does however have problems when it needs to
penetrate trees and buildings. To alleviate this, I'd like
HamWAN to offer a slower but deeper penetrating 900MHz
service. 900MHz is the lowest frequency ham band without
bandwidth or modulation rate restrictions. Before we deploy
a full cell site, I'd like to get some real-world experience
with 900MHz penetration, propagation and ambient noise
conditions. Here's the cheapest appropriate hardware we can
use for this:<br>
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1x Vpol omni antenna @ $79.50/ea = $79.50 (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.balticnetworks.com/laird-antenna-omni-8dbi-900mhz-n-female-integrated.html"
target="_blank">http://www.balticnetworks.com/laird-antenna-omni-8dbi-900mhz-n-female-integrated.html</a>)<br>
2x 9HPn modem @ $108.00/ea = $216.00 (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.balticnetworks.com/mikrotik-metal-9hpn.html"
target="_blank">http://www.balticnetworks.com/mikrotik-metal-9hpn.html</a>)<br>
1x Shipping @ $UNKNOWN (quote not showing?! Need to call
them.) = $40.00 ???<br>
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Total: $335.50<br>
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I already have a 900MHz high gain Yagi-Uda in my inventory
and can use that to do various field tests. These can be
directly compared against 5.9GHz performance since the gear
will be deployed to one of our existing 5.9GHz cell sites.
The results of such comparisons will give us a good idea of
how well 900MHz might do for HamWAN.<br>
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Disclaimer: These may not be the right modems or antennas
for us long-term. A real deployment might use Ubiquiti
Rocket M900 with their sector antennas. These Ubiquiti
items are far more expensive though, and their software
doesn't integrate as easily into our network, so for the
purposes of the test I believe the set of hardware I
proposed will do well at deploying fast and keeping costs
down.<br>
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NOTE: If both the votes are approved, I will combine
shipping from Baltic to save money.<br>
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--Bart<br>
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