I'm n5rgn, current president of the Stillwater Amateur Radio Club and we're at the beginning stages of planning our AREDN mesh. We're a fairly small club but we have good enthusiasm for this project. We hope to get other non-club-members in the area to get involved too.
I got 60 Aruba AP-105 radios off ebay for $3 each for generic cell and endpoint use, but we will acquire different site-specific radios and antenna for sector, point-to-point and other sites. The Aruba radios are not technically supported by AREDN right now, but they use common ath79 chipsets and I've built an AREDN firmware image for them that seems to be running fine. I'm in the experimental stage in their development, but I intend to get them added as officially supported radios soonish. I also hope to design and test a solar charge controller for low power sites, but that effort is probably a few months out.
I am the IT Manager at the Stillwater Public Library and have amateur contacts in other Stillwater agencies as well. It's too early to gauge potential cooperation there, but I feel positive about it. kp4djt has already offered to assist us in understanding AREDN deployment and more.
I got 60 Aruba AP-105 radios off ebay for $3 each for generic cell and endpoint use, but we will acquire different site-specific radios and antenna for sector, point-to-point and other sites. The Aruba radios are not technically supported by AREDN right now, but they use common ath79 chipsets and I've built an AREDN firmware image for them that seems to be running fine. I'm in the experimental stage in their development, but I intend to get them added as officially supported radios soonish. I also hope to design and test a solar charge controller for low power sites, but that effort is probably a few months out.
I am the IT Manager at the Stillwater Public Library and have amateur contacts in other Stillwater agencies as well. It's too early to gauge potential cooperation there, but I feel positive about it. kp4djt has already offered to assist us in understanding AREDN deployment and more.