[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: New site @ East Tiger Mountain - phase 1
Bart Kus
me at bartk.us
Tue May 19 15:55:57 PDT 2015
Yup, that whole repeater site is making use of the link right now. This
includes their web page, web cams, VoIP phone, IRLP, EchoLink and
D-Star. Very hammy.
--Bart
On 05/19/2015 03:54 PM, John D. Hays wrote:
> Do you have some 'end point' users on East Tiger, e.g. repeaters (WA7HJR)
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us
> <mailto:me at bartk.us>> wrote:
>
> 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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