[MVMA] 2nd Street - Xenia West Omni

[William Curtice]

To All:

I will be unable to attend the MVMA meeting tomorrow.  Following are my
thoughts on what to do with 2nd Street.

I believe 2nd Street location should be retained (and maintained) as an
omni-directional mesh access point for the Xenia area.  It can provide
connection to  many Xenia locations that cannot be supported by
Xenia-North/Simpson's location.  Desirable wide-band links include Xenia
North, me,  DARA, and MVHS/KAS.

Omni-Directional: Ideally, it would be nice to install panel sector array
antennas to provide omni, dual polarity coverage.  However, due to the
absence of a mounting rail and limited attachment options on the tank, I
believe that is something WS will not support.  Likewise, I do not believe
WS will support install of the 6 NanoStations that would be required for
full coverage.  That leaves us with using either a single-polarity omni,
with a bullet, or a dual-polarity omni, with a Rocket.  There may be other
options with the newly released hardware.

Frequency:  I have no problem leaving the access point on 2.4.  I likewise
have no objection to changing it to 5.8 or 3.4, running 10 MHz wide.  My
choice would be 5.8 due to availability of AREDN-compatible hardware.
Channel would have to be chosen carefully, especially if we use 5.8 for
links.

Links:  I'm thinking, we will get at most 3 NS links on the existing
mounts; maybe only two, maybe only one.   My vote would be MVHS/KAS and me.
Frequency should be 5.8 or 3.4.  I doubt WS and physical mounting will
allow any kind of large dish.  I have no references here to look at other
options (power beam?).

Hardware:  I would be reluctant to spend club resources to buy
dual-polarity hardware for omni-access.  Cost will likely also prohibit use
of dual polarity for links, but I would certainly support.

I have a vertically polarized 5.8 Omni antenna with plastic Bullet I am
willing to contribute to the club to replace the 2.4 omni-bullet ...... if
the club supports.

Costs:  I am willing to support part of the WS climb cost, and am also
willing to kick in for part of the link costs.

Tomorrow: I will be in Washington State playing with my grand kids; rerurn
Thursday.   Hope you have a great meeting!

Bill WA8APB
937-287-0871

Please reply to: william.curtice at ieee.org

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 1:15 PM Chuck Gelm <nc8q-mesh at gelm.net> wrote:

> On 10/19/19 8:56 PM, William Curtice wrote:
>
> I believe this is a good time to think through our strategy for 2nd
> Street, particularly in light of Chuck’s findings regarding the Ubiquiti
> NanoSwitch.    If we want to add additional NS, panels, or LHG dishes for
> links to DARA, KMH/DAYCO, MVHS, or other “points west” and Montgomery
> County… now is a good time to settle on what we think is most important…
> and then to see what Mike Wolf is willing to support.
>
>
> On the circuit feeding the bullet-omni:
>
>    - We will want to troubleshoot this, from atop the tank, to determine
>    what is broken and what still works.
>    - If the bullet is the only thing broken, do we want to replace the
>    single stream, 10 MHz BW, omni with another?
>       - Note that for over 3 years while fishing for meshers with this
>       lure we have caught no fish.
>       - Did we ever have a nibble?
>    - Do we want a replacement node on this tank to be a link for terminal
>    (home-ham) stations or a backhaul link?
>    - What about a 3rd node?
>    - If only the bullet is broken, what about a 4th, 5th, and/or 6th node?
>
>
>  Between now and 09:30 November 09, 2019, this reflector should be used
> for discussion.
> At 09:30 November 09, 2019, at the Bellbrook ARC clubhouse, I will call
> for reports on
> agenda items. No time will be scheduled for discussions. Please have your
> discussions here
> between now and 09:30 second Saturday. Hopefully by 10:30 reports will
> have concluded,
> the meeting can be closed, and the B.O.G.S.A.T. may begin.
>
>
>
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