[MVMA] John W. W8LRJ -Beavercreek: Attempt to link with Tim's loaner nodes

[John Westerkamp]

In the continuing saga of getting a NSM2 working at my QTH...success!!
Well, limited success.

I finally got the NSM2 up as high as I could and positioned it for minimum
interference from trees (not zero though). After about 15 minutes, I got
the KAS node to resolve and after about 10 more minutes, I could see the
Greene County mesh network. The SNR was about 15-20 dB and the LQ for KAS
was 90-100%. When the NLQ went above 20%, I was able to see the network.
This was a bit unreliable and drifted between 10-40%.

Once the network appeared to be somewhat stable, I tried making a VoIP call
to N8NQH (Tim) and was able to call his NWS server and listen to the
weather report as well as calling Tim directly. He answered and we had
about a 5 second conversation before the link gave out.

I consider this a successful test and will be returning the loaner kit. I
am looking recommendations for what I should buy. Should I stick with the
NSM2 or should I look to 5 GHz or 3 GHz? I have to admit, the wide open
3GHz channel sounds appealing, but if that is not appropriate for a user
node, just let me know. I am interested in EmComm so whatever would work
there (as a user) would be of interest.

Thanks for all you help!

John Westerkamp
W8LRJ

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM John Westerkamp <westerkampj at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was able to change the SSID on the NSM2 loaner with Moe's help. I have
> not climbed up on the roof, yet, but I seemed to do slightly better in
> terms of SNR this time getting consistent readings over 15 dB and LQ
> between 80% and 90%. The IP address for KAS did resolve after about 15
> minutes, but I never saw any neighbors in the list even after an hour (the
> M2 was about 15 feet in the air but going through some trees).
>
> I will try to get it up on the top of the roof peak this weekend and see
> what happens.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
> John Westerkamp
> W8LRJ
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM, John J. Westerkamp <westerkampj at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I see AREDN-W-10-v3 but not sure where to select it. I do not have
>> authorization to go into Setup. Is that where it would be set?
>>
>> On September 28, 2018 1:38:59 PM EDT, Maurice Riggins via MVMA <
>> mvma at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> KAS is AREDN-W
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