[MVMA] 2018-09-10 and future plans

[Maurice Riggins]

We’ve paid for replacement Bullet/Filter/Omni for
KAS and Vandalia. Let’s ask Tim to professionally
assemble, cable, and test them. Then get them up!

We’ve paid for five AGM5 XW (airGrid) models for 
the purpose of linking. If we’re going to link 
sites with non-2.4 GHz we need to use these first 
…unless someone wants to pay the MVMA for them. 

They may be SISO, but except for a few MIMO
Nanostations, we ARE a "boat anchor" SISO mesh. 
We proudly provide SISO annually at Hamvention.
Other Ohio groups have followed our SISO lead.

It’s not the best or newest, but it works. Our
problems are NOT that it’s SISO. We _must_ 
demonstrate financial responsibility for the 
grant money we've now [mostly] spent by not 
abandoning investments we’ve lost interest in
to spend what’s left on the "new and shiny."

I do agree we need to purge our presentations and 
web presence of anything that might encourage new 
meshers to buy Bullets, airGrids, or airRouters.
This is doing them a disservice. 


The MVMA Mesh - fourteen 2.4 GHz Omnis in bold:
red = functionally useless, * = 5.8 link

    AE8I N8ZM

    Vandalia

     Helke          DARA
                W8GUC







            N8DCP*   WA8APB*                 
                      *                    *XWARN
     W6CDR  N8ADO       KA8ZKR
           KAS                     *W Xenia          
           MIMO
   MVHS*              *                     Xenia
                    *N8NQH BB               South


 






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