November 2016 - FSG-public - lists.keekles.org

Jumping in on the action here
by Herb Mooney 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Hi all, Not new to wireless communications (that's my job, I work for Novatel Wireless), and not new to the amateur radio hobby (many of my friends and work counterparts are HAMs, but I'm not an actual licensed HAM...yet, taking he test this weekend at UPARC finally after enough pokes and prodding from other HAMs. I'm located in Palm Harbor. Looking forward to contributing and hanging out. Herb Mooney

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3.4 GHz link
by Bryan Fields 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Ryan and I spent some time in Tampa today getting a 3.4 GHz UBNT M3 radio up and roughly aligned to St Pete. I have to say running the 8 cat5 cables at the same time was a great idea, all we had to do was put it up and terminate it. The St Pete side of HamWan should be up online perhaps Friday if everything goes well. We did a spectrum scan of the 3350 to 3500 MHz ham band and there is not even a single ping on the spectrum. It's quite amazing to see how clean 3.4 GHz is. http://gallery.keekles.org/d/30819-1/3ghz+spectrum.png If you have the antenna on a dummy load it looks the same! It's really going to be a great link. We expect to have a -55 dBm signal, which should really help when there is fading across Tampa Bay. 73's -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.

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Antenna height
by xloner12 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

Hey Guys, If I wanted to think about getting on the hamWan from a clearwater neighborhood, what height would I be looking at to get my antenna up to work? -- Tyler, KM4RAE xloner12(a)gmail.com

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St Pete Site update
by Bryan Fields 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

We had a bit of an impromptu meeting today talking about Downtown St Pete repeaters and hamwan. We have a bit more of challenging site here as we must use fiberglass antennas and can't really elevate over the roof. We're of course open to other ideas and donations as to what we're planning on doing. Short list of plans: Extend Hamwan to St Pete: The first part of this will be done this week (hopefully) which will be the installation of a 3 GHz link from Tampa. A router's been programmed and ready to be installed once we have a rack in place. Three Sectors will be installed on the lower roof providing 5.9 GHz access to St Pete a bit later. Mounting brackets will need to be installed first. For repeaters we're planing on the following: 220 MHz analog FM 440 MHz DMR 440 MHz analog FM and P25 440 MHz Dstar 900 MHz analog FM and P25 The 440 repeaters will be TX combined and multi-coupled onto separate antennas. Mounting the antennas will be a bit challenging as we'll be having to install a bit of unistrut on a concrete wall about 25' up. This should give us great coverage in the south Pinellas county area from Tiera Verde up to Largo/Clearwater. Expect HT coverage out 10-15 miles, and mobile out to 35-40. Most of the equipment is on hand, but some will need to be purchased. Quite a few parts are left over from the Tampa install. I'd estimate the following costs: 1200 Data Radios/accessories 1150 220 Antenna 600 Unistrut, FL code rated anchors and pipe 700 Grounding parts/wire, lightning arrestors 1200 Coax cable and connectors/kits 550 Controller server --- 5400 Total The good news is most of the repeater hardware, antennas, filters and other parts are going to be donated, or this would be 20k+ to build out. We'll be doing some targeted donations to build out this site as well. 73's -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.

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Tampa HamWAN IPv6
by Bryan Fields 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

I've enabled IPv6 with prefix delegation on the core router. The local interface you should see is 2607:f3f0:2:1000::1 on the router if over the wireless. I've not tested it but SLACC should work, and ideally DHCPv6 with PD should be going. Right now I'm using excel for IPAM :( 73's -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.

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