Hi All,
I'm in the process of standing-up a wireless mesh in the city based on the great work done by the folks in the east bay. Thus far I have three nodes online and am looking forward to interconnecting with others in the city interested in participating. Depending on how you look at it, the city's urban landscape and property bureaucracy make installing permanent and dedicated mesh endpoints challenging.
I've taken to calling this mesh the "San Francisco Wireless Emergency Mesh" (SFWEM). The nodes I have are configured as follows:
- W2GMD-SUNSET: 1437 38th Ave (co-located with the SUNSET APRS Gate at my QTH)
- Gateway Node
- 2.4 GHz
- Channel: -2
- Channel Width: 10 MHz
- SSID: AREDN-10-v3
- 5 GHz
- Channel: 179 (5.5895 GHz)
- Channel Width: 10 MHz
- SSID: AREDN-10-v3
- 900 MHz TK
- 2.4 GHz
- Gateway Node
- W2GMD-ORION: 208 Utah Street (my office)
- Gateway Node
- 2.4 GHz
- Channel: -2
- Channel Width: 10 MHz
- SSID: AREDN-10-v3
- 5 GHz
- Channel: 179 (5.5895 GHz)
- Channel Width: 10 MHz
- SSID: AREDN-10-v3
- 900 MHz TK
- 2.4 GHz
- Gateway Node
- W2GMD-9: My Car (aka W2GMD-9 on APRS)
- Gateway Node
- 2.4 GHz
- Channel: -2
- Channel Width: 10 MHz
- SSID: AREDN-10-v3
- 5 GHz
- Channel: 179 (5.5895 GHz)
- Channel Width: 10 MHz
- SSID: AREDN-10-v3
- 2.4 GHz
- Gateway Node
I have plenty of spare equipment in case anyone is looking to try-before-they-buy.
When you look at other areas of the country, you scratch your head and wonder, "What up!!!" This place has Silicon Valley but no techies interested in broadband mesh???
Thank you for echoing my call at the northern end!
See my post at http://www.aredn.org/content/morgan-hill-aredn-node-24-ghz-ch-2-would-ne...
Spread the word!
Let's fill in the blank space in between us.
73,
Frank
WA2KWR
Incredibly excited to see this taking off - I've been interested in setting up a mesh in SF for a while, but didn't have a particularly great place for equipment until very recently.
On that note, my new office is on the 23rd floor of One California, which provides some great views to the East Bay. Berkeley is definitely in view, and possibly the USS Hornet as well. We also have good LOS up to the top of Nob Hill, and to several other highrises downtown. If you'd be willing to loan some gear (or swing by one evening with it all), I'd be happy ot see if we can't get a link from the East Bay into the city.
Getting it out of FiDi will be tricky, though. I know CARLA has a repeater very close by on a higher building - maybe we could borrow some space? - and there are plenty of spots on top of Nob Hill that might be willing to lend space for the sake of community service. Likewise, we do have a slightly obstructed view down Market St., and might be able to bounce the signal down that way for someone else to pick up in the Lower Market area. The Auxiliary Communication Service is also trying to get back onboard with Packet data, and might take an interest, as would SFARC. Happy to help work all those angles.
I'm pretty busy this week, but lets shoot for a time next week to get together. w2gmd@undef.net
Well, it's been a bit (And I have a new office!), but from 301 Howard I can just barely see wb6tae's wb6tae-1998.local.mesh over in Berkeley. From the other side of the office, I have a full view of Sutro, where W6PW has a repeater. I wonder if we could work with them to colocate a few nodes?
Let me turn my M2 Dish @ the city, and see if you can pick it up?
The N6BRK had ...and probably still has a NO Internet policy. I on the other hand I maintain a Tunnel server. I'm located in the WEST Berkeley.
73 Mathison
LMK When you've got it pointed and I can set the gear back up to test. I haven't done a permanent install yet, given it's my companies' office and not my office.
Worst case, the Nanobridge isn't quite powerful enough and I need to get a PowerBeam for that side of the link. There's also the question of what to do with the signal once I have it: Getting it outside of the urban canyon and up onto a hill would be ideal, but if anything this at least shows a link is possible.
Depending on your LOS from your office you might be able to hit The Hub nodes in Richmond all tho its on Ch 1 and not -2. lookup kj6dzb-4 via APRS.
Best,
Jim
Let me know If you have a map?
I've added a Aredn flashed NanoBridge 5M on channel 179 / 10Mhz width pointing downtown. I'm not seeing any other nodes (I have the big 25th St Telco Building and the US Bank building blocking some of my view) right now.
I'll keep playing around with my pointing but wanted to get word out that I have it up.
If you can see the old St Luke's building from a downtown location you likely have line of sight on me)
Regards,