[Troop139] Fwd: Mesh Install Video - Shared via Adobe Spark

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New mesh nodes at William Paterson University provide network coverage into Fair Lawn, Clifton and other points.  
Matt Mullins, KD2MLR, President of the WPU Amateur Radio Club, Mark Sacharoff, KC2VYI, of the WPU IT Dept. and Gordon Beattie, W2TTT deployed the Amateur Radio-based mesh data networking equipment that Gordon provided.  This is the first set of mesh nodes on campus with more being planned to provide Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) links on and off campus.  External links are already working to the Fair Lawn Radio Club in the Community Center, and to downtown Clifton.  We will add more links into Garret Mountain Reservation and Rifle Camp Park and other sites in Passaic, Bergen and Essex Counties shortly.  
Gordon drove around the area and had decent coverage in high spots where buildings and trees were not in the way.  We will need to test more, but this is an exciting development for resilient networking to augment or extend the Internet when needed for public events and as an experimental platform to teach students and members of the community about data networks, radio communications and computing.
In January, the WPU site will go up another 15 ft to clear the VHF/UHF antennas at the site, which will enhance the coverage quite a bit.
Jess Strom, a WPU student and friend of Matt's, documented the installation for a class in a two and a half minute video.
https://spark.adobe.com/video/1Ak1Ew3CzlKef

73,Gordon Beattie, W2TTT 201.314.6964



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