[HamWAN PSDR] Madison Park Seattle HAMwan node?

[Robert Edmiston]

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the quick response. That would be super if I could reach the
Haystack site.  Our little community would be quite cut off without power
in the event of an earthquake or even something as common as a heavy snow.
My hub team is investigating solutions for emergency comms beyond feebly
attempting to use voice to convey ICS-213 forms.  It sounds like you have
something great working already and I'd love to see if it could work for
us.

I'd like to see if it would work at all, with minimal investment. We have a
community council with funds to buy equipment if a proof of concept test
works out.  What would be your recommended kit for seeing if we could make
contact? From your online PowerPoint docs, I've read that the Microtik
hardware is super hard to configure, but that the Ubiquiti is far easier to
set up for people who are not network transport layer engineers.
Bob

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> What is your goal? Your location on the west side of the lake should
> be well covered by the Haystack site (at 4000' above Sultan). This
> will give you routing to all other HamWAN users.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Robert Edmiston <kg7ucl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there. I'm Bob Edmiston, emergency hub radio lead for the Madison
> Park emergency hub. From a propagation perspective, the waterfront
> communities around Lake Washington have more in common with each other than
> their respective cities due to line-of-sight challenges. Waterfront
> communities share the luxury of direct line-of-sight radio communications,
> especially well suited to hamwan frequencies.
> >
> > My neighborhood on Lake WA falls in the hamwan shadow of the Washington
> Park hill, but we are line of sight to Kirkland and cougar mountain. Who
> could I speak with about the possibility of testing connections from
> Madison Park to the Eastside?
> > Bob Edmiston
> > KG7UCL
> > 425-985-4182
> > Madison Park HUB
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