AARC MESH Connection to Mat-Su – Good Signal and Throughput!
On Monday, September 25, I traveled out to Fire Station 61 in Wasilla to test connectivity and throughput with a Ubiquiti RocketDish/Rocket M3 radio to our Site Summit node. A...
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MESH Connectivity Testing – Have RocketDish, Will Travel
We’ve noticed some intermittent connectivity between the EARS MESH node and the Site Summit MESH node since installation last week. We made a second trip up to Site Summit a...
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RocketDish 3G26 Assembly
I just assembled a RocketDish 3G26 for testing MESH connectivity from various locations to the new Site Summit node. Check out the time lapse video of the assembly. Please forgive...
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Grubstake Repeaters Back Online
It looks as though we may have a good fix in place for the Grubstake 2-meter (147.33+) and 440 (443.90+) repeaters. As you may know, the units have been off/on/offline...
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FCC Site – We don’t need no stinking noise floor!
I finally caught up with Pat Wilke, KL7JA a few days ago. Pat hung out with me in the tent for a good portion of the night during Field Day...
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Site Summit MESH Adjustment – hold on to your hat!
KL7MD and KL5T trekked up to Site Summit again late yesterday afternoon to make some antenna alignment adjustments for the MESH node. We weren’t satisfied with the signal levels between...
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Working Wednesday, 9/20/2017 – Agenda
WORKING WEDNESDAY – 2017.09.20 @ 1800 – 2100 01). SNIPER’S NET CHECK-IN: 1800 to 1820 02). TEST HF WINLINK CONNECTIVITY TO FAIRBANKS / ANMC 03). SENIOR CENTER – FIND ORIGINAL...
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Anchorage Senior Center Progress – Near Ready for Beam Install
Kent (KL5T) and Sid (KL7SID) did a bit more work at the Anchorage Senior Center on Friday, 9/15. We installed PL259 connectors on each end of the LMR-400 coaxial cable...
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Site Summit MESH Node Status – Lookin’ Good
In the previous blog post we mentioned that we installed a MESH node at the Site Summit repeater site. To be more specific, this included a Ubiquiti Rocket M3 Radio...
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Site Summit Repeater Upgrades and MESH Install
A big work crew attacked the Site Summit 147.30/90 repeater site yesterday. Mike, KL7MD, facilitated site access and Dave, AL7LO led the effort to rewire the entire repeater and packet...