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kb5zvp
Austin TX On the Air
Austin Texas is offically on the air!

Nanostation M2, at 30.43751389 -97.73818611, presently pointing ~4deg true.  (mostly on purpose - happy to spin if reasoned :D)

So I probably jumped the gun a little bit on hanging it, since it just talks to my laptop atm.  So the next ? is repurpose a WRT-54 as a gateway, or can I configure the toughbook running XP to do the routing?  (help would be appreciated there).  THe laptop will run a Winlink Post Office with for now a VHF packet relay (still to be wired back up).

Since the nanostation doesn't yet see the internet it can't post the coordinates itself just yet.

73 de KB5ZVP
Scott
K5DLQ
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yeah!  Another Texas AREDN
yeah!  Another Texas AREDN node on the air.  Love it!
kb5zvp
It was a tossup whether to
It was a tossup whether to point the antenna north or towards you Darryl, but I'm hoping to test some coverage towards a station in Harker Heights, with is a streach especially with the hill in the way.  But I gotta try, and maybe I could justify some more height and higher gains.
K5DLQ
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well...  I'm 131 miles away..
well...  I'm 131 miles away.... Maybe once you get that 20,000ft tower....  ;-)

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