[HamWAN PSDR] Any other ideas on how to experiment with hamwan?

[Bill Vodall]

> Maybe sometime down the road we'll find another site to put sectors on that you can see. A city with hills and trees is not a promising place to try and find HamWAN shots unfortunately.

When I heard of the 'data ring' concept used by HamWAN I thought it
was so cool I started building my own.   That's an option for any one
any where.    Start with a client node and a single backbone node.
>From there add a couple more radios you'll have a real backbone of two
units and a client link and a client radio.

Just getting that going will be an education unbelievable.   Done
right - it'll let you take the client node portable and then hook up
to one of the mainline nodes when you have a good location.

A 'real' parking lot data ring will take six backbone radios for 3
nodes with dedicated point-to-point links and a client access radio
for each node.   9 radios total plus how ever many clients you need..

A little over the top perhaps.   Why not - folks in all other hobbies
are getting equally involved and spending way more...

Bill, WA7NWP