Nothing that I'm aware of. But I'm involved with the Boise/Emmett/Nampa network.
If you have a friend, pick up a couple nodes and get it started there!
Steve, I see there are a few hills to the west and east of Kamiah. If you know of any repeaters up there, maybe ask the owners if they're willing to place a node alongside their repeater. That could easily provide AREDN network coverage to all of your town.
I could provide a tunnel connection to down here if you would like.
I'd suggest starting with the MikroTik hAP lite to setup in your station. Disable the mesh and enable WiFi AP. Now you have access into the mesh via wired or wireless.
if you need to connect RF to another site, the hAP port 5 has dtd linking. I'd suggest nothing less than 16dbi gain (such as the MikroTik SXTsq5).
As Orv said, getting a 90 or 120° sector up on a hill provides a point to multipoint serving site for everyone. If repeater owners need incentive, it may be possible for them to remotely monitor and control their site equipment over the network (as we do in Boise/Emmet).
The Mikrotik was what I was going to get! I will be back home the first week in April and will go to work on setting this up really appreciate the offer I need to get something online and learn a bit before I try and add folks to the system they have been talking about this for some time! Will be in touch!!
Absolutely! In fact a fellow ham here just bought 11 hAP nodes and I have them updated and ready to deploy. If you want to buy one of these it's plug-n-play for a quick startup (including a tunnel pre-configured). Let me know whenever and I'll get you in touch with him.
well that would be super easy BUT I don't learn much that way :-) I helped a freind yesterday get his flashed so I think I have that down no problem but learn better by doing things! Will let you know if I change my mind though thanks for the offer.
The hAP ac Lite will work fine. But it's a last-generation product. Recommend biting the bullet and getting the ac3. Newer electronics (more RAM and flash, faster/bigger CPU) and its two radios have external antennas for better in-home coverage
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Thanks for that info I will look at this model as well. Maybe I'm thinking wrong but I thought if I get the inexspensice unit and once others start to get interested I could donate it to smeone else and get better stuff. Everyone is interested BUT how many will jump onboard I have no clue!
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