Power Outage Takes Down Systems
A power outage struck parts of South Anchorage and the Anchorage Hillside a few days ago. The outage took down a few of our hillside assets for about 2 hours...
Category: Mesh Networking
Anything and everything to do with high speed mesh networking
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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...
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New KL7AA-10 APRS Digipeater / I-Gate Operational
We’ve been testing our new WX3in1 APRS Digipeater / I-Gate for several weeks now at the AARC clubhouse. We’ve determined it’s been working as advertised so Kevin Opalka, KL2NV, and...
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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...
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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:...
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AARC WX3in1 APRS Digipeater / I-Gate Configured and Being Tested
As part of our Hillside South location upgrade and to replace the old KL7AA APRS Digipeater/I-Gate formerly operated from the club station, we purchased a Microsat WX3in1 APRS Advanced Digipeater/I-Gate...
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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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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...