[HamWAN PSDR] Thanks From RAMROD / RFID Team

[Doug Kingston]

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.

-Doug-, KD7DK

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Randy Neals <randy at neals.ca> wrote:

> Tom, Casey & HamWAN,
>
> 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.
>
> We very successfully used the new sector at Crystal Mountain to support
> RAMROD Cycling Event operations in Cayuse Pass yesterday.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> We achieved about 3Mbps up and 3Mpbs down.
>
> We ran the following applications over the network at Cayuse.
> 1. Reporting rider RFID data back to the RAMROD Ops Center/computing
> system.
> 2. VoIP phones between Cayuse and the RAMROD Ops Center.
> 3. Live HD video stream of Cayuse Pass operations which was used in the
> Ops Center.
>
> Obviously moving from 300 bps over HF to 3 million bps afforded some
> additional applications which were well received by RAMROD organizers.
>
> Here's a map of the RAMROD course.
> http://redmondcyclingclub.org/images/ramrod_coursemap_inspiration.jpg
>
>
> Thanks,
> Randy, W3RWN
>
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