I have just been presented the opportunity to do a sales job on including an AREDN package on a 200 foot tower to be part of an emergency services dispatch center. My difficulty is twofold: VERY limited time and not a lot of personal knowledge/experience with AREDN. I suspect the tower will be three-legged. What I have in mind is three 120 degree 2.4 GHz Sector Antennas and 2 backbone antenna - one link of approximately 6 miles and the other as far as possible (to an intermediary site).
In order to ballpark cost the proposal, I could use some expert advice on:
- what units to use for the sector antennas
- what units to use for the backbone antennas
- recommendations on an interconnect harness
- thoughts on powering the package from the ground (hardened site, not earthquake prone) or solar.
I will likely be making first contacts within a week.
Thanks in advance,
Ian VA3QT
va3qt@rac.ca
You need a Netgear GS105E or GS108E to link them together at the base of the tower.
Consider one of the PowerBeam M5 (or Rocket M3+RocketDish) models for backbackbone
Armored CAT5 up the tower
Lightning arrestors at the base on all nodes