Greetings!

We are just getting started setting up an HSMM-MESH network in the High Desert (e.g. Victorville, Adelanto, Hesperia) and surrounding areas.

If you would like to join in the network, or just this conversation, please introduce yourself to the group here.

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing your HSMM-MESH node on the Map!

- Mike
  KA9CQL
  Victorville, CA, USA
  DM14, San Bernardino county
 

I have one wrt54g that I've reporgrammed and an external ~12 db yagi from ebay.

the yagi looks like this one, but with 13 directors.

Radiolabs.com claims 1 mile with it.

i purchased mine from ebay for ~$10 delivered: http://goo.gl/76h2Y

I haven't connect to another node yet.  I shuda gotten 2 wrt54g at the fleamarket.

jim

Hello Mike, Christy here, Apple Valley.

I like dancing little guy, megaherz guy?

hay I am on my way, got the yagi pointing west.

waiting on more components to put this puppy up on a pole.

when I get powered up will post on map.

thanks for putting this together.

73

KB6LTY

Good evening,

My name is Paul, K6GPZ, and I reside in Temple City. I know...not exactly the "High Desert", but this is the only group close enough for now.

Either way, I have a few routers and switches all uploaded with the MESH firmware. I've tested the system quite a bit, and was even successful on running two phones (VOIP) via 3CX, using my computer as the PBX server. System works flawlessly!

Well, just wanted to say HI!!

73

Paul K6GPZ

I now have a Linksys node up an running continuously, and have been playing with HSMM-PI nodes to determine range, etc. The Pi node(s) currently run intermittently, while I look around for potential sites.

I am working on adding services, which will include a GPS-referenced Stratum 0 NTP server in the near future. I am also working on powering a couple of nodes from solar/wind rather than the A/C mains.

Now to drum up some interest among the local Barstow hams and ham club...

Anyone mobile through Barstow on I-15 or US-58 should be able to see my node.

Hi all my name is Marcus - KE6RHV ARES DEC High Desert Section Antelope Valley and we are getting ready to put out our network to cover our area with Bullets for the back bone. The question becomes 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz for our back bone? also  ......

Will the flashed Ubiquity units, 2.4 or 5.8 operate in the Part 97 spectrum, outside the ISM band?

Is the power adjustable on both bands?

What is the maximum power level of both bands configurable via the firmware?

Thanks,

Marcus

I personally tend to think of 2.4 as an access layer where you feed it to areas you want to cover, and. 5.8 as the backbone connecting access sites (aka a 2.4ghz cluster in one area fed to a 5.8 back haul which feed down to a  subsets of 5.8 sites). This way you keep all the major noise on 2.4 (lots of users comming and going) and design your local area repeaters (like a node the can feed a section of a city ) to uplink on 5.8 and let users access on 2.4.   You also get the advantage that Linksys users can still get in as well. Of course that is just my personal thought on it at the moment, I can't gurantre it's the right way for everywhere and is ultimately something each area will need to decide on and evaluate as more feedback is given about 5ghz.

In regards to the frequency range the units currently only operate on the normal frequencies ranges that the hardware is designed and tested for.

The power is adjustable on all units, the maximum power is determined by what the hardware is rated for and varies based on model and band, you should reffer to the Ubiquti data sheets for more information on the hardware capabilities.