[HamWAN PSDR] Evergreen Hospital / Monroe

Fri May 6 20:29:10 PDT 2016

Strength and speed were not optimal, but mainly due to the location of the antenna.  Rather than hold it by hand and try to run the laptop at the same time, I mounted it to an existing piece of uni-strut that was supporting part of an existing HVAC assembly.  It was extremely coarse aim, and not easily “tweaked” with an angled clamp on square uni-strut.  The vertical was only about 4.5’ high, with the bottom 2’ obscured toward the front of the dish path by a beam assembly.  The lower part of the Poynting was almost LOS obscured by a roof beam assembly about 18” in front of the dish.  The upper part of the dish was literally touching the HVAC equipment.  In short, the antenna was shooting out of a recess between the roof and HVAC equipment.  Signals were measured between -65 and -75 on both Haystack S1 and S3.  Fine tuning was a joke because of trying to rotate the clamp around the square unistrut.  Still, speakeasy gave us a good 3-4mbit even under those conditions.  I expect we will be significantly better on the pole with the ability to tune and more open space / less Fresnel issues around the dish.  It is a 100% unencumbered shot to Haystack.  Youtube worked fine for 10-15 minutes <g>.

One other piece I discovered that may need a documentation update.  After loading the config off of the web page, I was able to hit google from the 5shpn, but not the laptop.   I was also able to hit the 5shpn from the laptop, but not go through to the ‘net.  Turned out I needed to activate NAT.  Not sure that’s in the directions.  Will look more later to see if I missed something.

Cheers,

Rob

From: PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces at hamwan.org] On Behalf Of Bart Kus
Sent: Friday, May 6, 2016 3:16 PM
To: psdr at hamwan.org
Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Evergreen Hospital / Monroe

Can you share signal strength + speed numbers?

--Bart

On 5/6/2016 2:34 PM, Rob Salsgiver wrote:

Greetings all,

Today I performed a re-test of connectivity at Evergreen Hospital in Monroe.  Last year we were able to connect around/through trees west to SnoDEM @ Paine Field.  Today’s connection was a wide-open shot straight to Haystack.  

Back then Valley General Hospital was going through merger & acquisition growing pains and there wasn’t much interest in HamWAN at that particular time.  Last month after reaching out things have moved along very well and we appear to have very good support.  An antenna location has been identified and they will be installing CAT5 from the roof to radio room in the next 2-3 weeks.  This should give us time to have the pieces in place to connect Evergreen to SnoDEM and Providence for the upcoming Cascadia Rising drill in June.

I hope to still add Everett Clinic this month as well.  This will give us a long-overdue, good working core of EM-types to expand off of following the drill.  Each installation will have a local EOC hotspot, VOIP phone, and laptop or desktop PC for web/email access. 

Thanks to Nigel, Bart, Tom, Ryan, Cory and the rest of the folks who have helped with VOIP, information, and other guidance to help make it happen.

More as it develops.

Cheers,

Rob

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