| Continuing the Mt. Baldi to Tacoma link thread… Here are some pictures from both sides. |
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Peter Yorke and I made a trek up to mt. baldi today, along with Scott
Cronk. Mike Pierce was down on the optic fusion building in tacoma with
a 24dBi parabolic for alignment purposes. The weather was awesome on the
mountain, and we have a few pictures. The snow has completely melted,
making vehicle access possible.
We successfully accomplished the following:
- Moved soekris to waterproof enclosure on top of tower
- Placed donated RG1000 in enclosure for future use (mt. rainier client
access and eastern washington link test purposes) - Placed tacoma facing radio for linking into downtown tacoma, radio configured and online. Aligned antenna with Tacoma test radios.
The tower mounting is very exciting because we were able to eliminate
50-60 feet of LMR-400 in exchange for just using a couple of pigtails.
This cuts our signal losses drastically.
The next steps will be to move the seattle facing antenna up to the tower
on our next trip, and install a permanent facility on the building in
tacoma this next coming week. We also will probably obtain a 24dBi
parabolic for mt. rainier facing as well as eastern washington facing for
link tests. There are also some fun items going into the mt. baldi site.
As soon as a few minor building facility items are addressed in tacoma
(work in progress) we should have network connectivity between
TacomaBaldi very shortly. A client radio is being placed in Tacoma
(TacomaNode) for all those in range for end-user usage.
Its been a long 6 months, but we are slowly making progress on
introducing the first piece of snownet for general SWN usage! Just one
wireless hop (router) to tacoma from seattle. Hopefully more fun hops
soon.
Exciting times ahead! More updates at the meeting - be sure to attend!
I was on #wireless and someone pasted an article chunk. This bit caught my eye.
Yet Wi-Fi networks, known as hot spots, have popped up faster than fleas on a circus dog. Thousands of do-it-yourselfers worldwide have rigged antennas to create their own hot spots. They’ve joined together to form networks so that the public can zap e-mails and surf blogs for free, no matter where they are. From street corners in Sydney to mountaintops outside Seattle, some 5,000 free hot spots have emerged. This is Wi-Fi Nation. More than 18 million people worldwide have logged on, and the numbers are growing daily.
| Casey is giving his snownet presentation at the SeattleWireless general meeting. Unfortunately, we’re not streaming this meeting due to encoder station problems, but it’s pretty cool. There are about 20 people here, which is suprising to me because it’s Mother’s Day. Talk covers the MtBaldi installation, a 38 mile link, the proposed Tacoma link (28 miles) and the test setup which included a VOIP phone call, file transfers, and fun driver tricks. |
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Down in Tacoma, Michael Pierce and Drake Diedrich, stood on a nice sunny roof and we successfully made a 28.2 mile link happen. 802.11b is cool.
This effort was just a test to see if we coud make the link, and Michael has more details at his site, but it looks like it’s going to be a permanent installation sometime in the coming month. It also looks like the snownet project is going to start moving faster now that the sun is coming out and it’s easier to get to sites. I have some pictures of our side of the link here |
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