[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Baldi LAN expansion and Rattlesnake link

[Bart Kus]

Jason, glad you like this idea, as you're one one of the tenants who 
would benefit from the in-building switch access.  :)  We've partnered 
with another tenant who is sponsoring this build-out under his lease, so 
we don't need any further approvals.  But thanks for offering to help!

Kenny, a great question that I forgot to make clear.  There is already 
conduit between all the buildings.  I confirmed tonight that it's got 
sufficient capacity to run an extra CAT5.  I think we only have to fish 
a ~150ft run between the middle building and the bunker, as there are 
spare CAT5s in the conduit between the middle building and north 
building, so that should just be plug-n-play. The trenching to the 
bunker was done earlier this year as a response to the awful power 
outages we suffered this winter.  The north building is now tied into 
generator control (and possibly power?) of the bunker.

--Bart


On 5/31/2020 11:22 PM, Kenny Richards wrote:
> Bart,
>
> I've seen several of these e-mails about the project, but don't 
> remember seeing an explanation of a key aspect.
>
> What is the plan to connect the buildings with gigabit Ethernet? Are 
> you planning on digging a trench, stringing the CAT5 along the tree's 
> or something else? Sorry, I am not familiar with the layout or 
> location of these different buildings. so maybe that is a good place 
> to start with your plan? Have you received permission from the site 
> owners for this work?
>
> Thanks
> Kenny
>
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:08 PM Jason J. Hill <Jason at pnwrr.com 
> <mailto:Jason at pnwrr.com>> wrote:
>
>     I like this idea. It looks like the wiztronics site would be the
>     one you'd like to put the link to rattlesnake on. Since we don't
>     currently occupy their main tower structure, we can check with
>     them to see if a dish could be covered under our current lease at
>     no additional cost if you'd like.
>
>     Jason
>     kd7tqn
>
>
>
>     ------ Original message------
>     *From: *Bart Kus
>     *Date: *Sun, May 31, 2020 10:48 PM
>     *To: *Puget Sound Data Ring;
>     *Cc: *
>     *Subject:*[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Baldi LAN expansion and Rattlesnake link
>
>     Hello,
>
>     We have 4 clients connected to Baldi-S1 (a SISO sector) that are
>     kind of silly:
>
>      # INTERFACE  RADIO-NAME       MAC-ADDRESS       AP SIGNAL...
>     TX-RATE UPTIME
>      0 wlan1      AF7PR-Baldi      E4:8D:8C:C6:F5:45 no  -60dBm   
>     32.5... 2d8h51m46s
>      1 wlan1      KD7TQN-Baldi     D4:CA:6D:C2:ED:93 no  -65dBm   
>     32.5... 2d8h51m32s
>      2 wlan1      N7OEP/Baldi-B... D4:CA:6D:0D:53:F9 no  -60dBm   
>     32.5... 2d8h51m27s
>      3 wlan1      Rattlesnake-B... 64:D1:54:AF:3F:CD no  -79dBm   
>     19.5... 1d9h35m21s
>
>     They're silly because the first 3 are at the same mountain top,
>     just a couple hundred feet away in adjacent shacks. This is a
>     waste of prime long-range spectrum, being used to do local-links. 
>     I'd like to get all the shacks @ Baldi tied together via gigabit
>     Ethernet, and install access switches at the 2 other shacks so
>     people there can plug into the LAN directly.  This high speed LAN
>     between all shacks can then be used to allow us to address the 4th
>     silly client, which is Rattlesnake Mountain.  I'd like to install
>     a dedicated dish on the northernmost tower (fed by the new high
>     speed LAN) to act as a dedicated high speed link between Baldi and
>     Rattlesnake.  The dish on the Rattlesnake side will also need a
>     modem upgrade to run at full speed, and I'm including that in this
>     proposal.
>
>     Here is the rough budget for this spend request:
>
>     *Item**
>     * 	*Quantity**
>     * 	*Cost**
>     * 	*Subtotal**
>     *
>     500ft pull rope
>     	1
>     	$12.97
>     	$12.97
>     425ft duct rod
>     	1
>     	$111
>     	$111
>     Taxes for above 2 items
>     	1
>     	$11.53
>     	$11.53
>     CRS112-8P-4S-IN for northernmost building, feeding Rattlesnake
>     dish w/ PoE and access ports for clients
>     	1
>     	$170
>     	$170
>     CRS326-24G-2S+RM for middle building, acting as mid-span switch
>     and providing ports to lots of devices there
>     	1
>     	$185.24
>     	$185.24
>     Taxes for above 2 items
>     	1
>     	$33.04
>     	$33.04
>     1000ft Shielded CAT5 TC-PRO ToughCable
>     	1
>     	$137.68
>     	$137.68
>     Taxes for above
>     	1
>     	$12.80
>     	$12.80
>     Existing Inventory Estimate: RB921UAGS-5SHPacD-NM modem
>     	2
>     	$150
>     	$300
>     Existing Inventory Estimate: mANT30 2ft microwave dish
>     	1
>     	$120
>     	$120
>     Existing Inventory Estimate: Sleeve30 2ft microwave dish isolation kit
>     	1
>     	$100
>     	$100
>     TOTAL COST ESTIMATE
>     	
>     	
>     	$1,194.26
>
>
>     Current HamWAN balance is about $16k.
>
>     Procedural reminder since we haven't had one of these emails in
>     way too long: HamWAN directors have 24 hours to vote upon such
>     spend decisions, and members have the same time to weigh in with
>     opinions to influence director votes.  Our procedures are
>     documented here:
>
>     http://hamwan.org/Administrative/Constitution.html
>
>     --Bart
>
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