August 27th, 2017 kennyr
Spent most of Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon working on the Beacon Hill HamWAN site. Here are the pictures from the two days.
Friday I finished the rack build out, which was mainly getting the UPS batteries wired up and assembling the PDU and Switch. With that working, I was able to configure enough of the PtP link to Baldi (which Bart had installed the previous weekend) to allow the admin group to get into the site.
Today the crew got the S2 sector installed (what I call the Kenny sector, since it points at my QTH) and another PtP antenna for Haystack. They were all at least talking to each other when we left, but I think more admin configuration is needed. (where is DHCP guys?)
Next weekend is another PtP dish for Gold and then S1 / S3 sectors. Got to use a rotary hammer today to drill holes in the concrete for the PtP dish. That was cool….
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August 21st, 2017 kennyr
Forgot to post these pictures of the trip to Lyman Hill last month. The trip was to install the new 224.78 repeater. The most interesting thing about the trip was the ‘crowd’ we found when we got up there. Another amateur group was working on their repeater in another building and the WireISP guys were there. (the incredibly messing / scary rack next to the repeater is the WISP)
Here are the pictures I took….
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August 21st, 2017 kennyr
Spent the afternoon helping out with a new HamWAN site installation. About half the day was spent hauling up all the equipment. (Full size Dell rack, batteries for UPS, four dishes and three sector antennas) I spent the rest of the time trying to install the UPS, which was really a bunch of rare parts. What I got done will need to be yanked out and re-done on Friday, since I was working with a bad set of assumptions. (No worries, it will be quicker the second time :-)
Like an idiot I got no pictures of what I did, but did get a bunch of pictures of the outside and the one dish Bart got mounted. (Mostly, it will also need some additional work)
NOTE: Here are the pictures Tim took….
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