[Troop139] Mesh Install Video - Shared via Adobe Spark

[Thom Guida]

Congrats! Gordon demonstrating his great Technical abilities, Jess/Matt
fine video.

TY

73/T/
w2nz

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:19 PM w2ttt <w2ttt at att.net> wrote:

> New mesh nodes at William Paterson University provide network coverage
> into Fair Lawn, Clifton and other points.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jess Strom, a WPU student and friend of Matt's, documented the
> installation for a class in a two and a half minute video.
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> https://spark.adobe.com/video/1Ak1Ew3CzlKef
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> 73,
> Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
> 201.314.6964 <(201)%20314-6964>
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