ARES – Page 6 – Anchorage Amateur Radio Club

Anchorage Simulated Emergency Test Participation

The AARC and Anchorage ARES participated in the ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on Saturday, October 7. We had a limited focus this year due to our focus on our...

By Kent Petty Published October 30, 2017 5923 Rowan Clubhouse, ARES, Mesh Networking

Are you “Winlink” Capable?

Do you know what Winlink is and what it’s used for? Have you heard folks talking about Winlink and wondered what the heck is this system? Here’s a little help...

By Kent Petty Published October 5, 2017 5923 Rowan Clubhouse, ARES, Mesh Networking, Working Wednesday

Working Wednesday, 10/4/2017

Working Wednesday tonight at the club station, 5923 Rowan. We should have someone there by around 1800. Lot’s of work to be done. A few things we’ll be working on:...

By Kent Petty Published October 4, 2017 5923 Rowan Clubhouse, APRS, ARES, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Working Wednesday

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...

By Kent Petty Published September 27, 2017 ARES, Mesh Networking, RF Experiments

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...

By Kent Petty Published September 24, 2017 ARES, Mesh Networking

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...

By Kent Petty Published September 24, 2017 ARES, Mesh Networking

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...

By Kent Petty Published September 17, 2017 Anchorage Senior Center, ARES

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...

By Kent Petty Published September 17, 2017 ARES, Mesh Networking

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...

By Kent Petty Published September 17, 2017 ARES, Mesh Networking, Repeaters

Site Summit Upgrade In Progress

Dave Heimke (AL7LO) reports that he and Mike O’Keefe (KL7MD) visited Site Summit today to prep for major DC supply system upgrades and other repeater-related matters. While there, a preliminary...

By Kent Petty Published September 4, 2017 ARES, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters

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