<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I was lead for Cayuse team and I will second Randy's comments. The ease of communications this provided and the far better situational awareness for the Ops Center were really appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">-Doug-, KD7DK</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Randy Neals <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy@neals.ca" target="_blank">randy@neals.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Tom, Casey & HamWAN,<br><br>A quick note to thank HamWAN and all others that had a hand in the Crystal HamWAN Sector installation, as well as general support of the HamWAN backbone.<br><br>We very successfully used the new sector at Crystal Mountain to support RAMROD Cycling Event operations in Cayuse Pass yesterday.<br><br>Cayuse Pass is, as the name suggests, a pass between various mountains in Mt Ranier National Park/Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. I generally has no cell coverage, and until this year, RAMROD used Winlink over HF to move data.<br><br><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The connection required an intermediate node at Sunrise Point, which then had line of sight down a slot in the rock to Cayuse Pass. We used DynaDish5's for all 3 radios.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We achieved about 3Mbps up and 3Mpbs down.</span><br><br>We ran the following applications over the network at Cayuse.<br>1. Reporting rider RFID data back to the RAMROD Ops Center/computing system.<br>2. VoIP phones between Cayuse and the RAMROD Ops Center.<br>3. Live HD video stream of Cayuse Pass operations which was used in the Ops Center.<br><br>Obviously moving from 300 bps over HF to 3 million bps afforded some additional applications which were well received by RAMROD organizers.<br><br>Here's a map of the RAMROD course.<br><a href="http://redmondcyclingclub.org/images/ramrod_coursemap_inspiration.jpg" target="_blank">http://redmondcyclingclub.org/<wbr>images/ramrod_coursemap_<wbr>inspiration.jpg</a><br><br><br>Thanks,<div>Randy, W3RWN<br><br><br><br><br></div></div>
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