Journal Entries

February 2025

• License coordination completed without a problem.
• FCC paperwork submitted.

January 2025

• Validated a link between Hurricane and City Hall using an pair of AREDN nodes.
• Originally reported that the current mounting frame on the roof will need to be moved a few feet for ideal placement of the new link. However, later inspection of the photos take on site suggest I may have aligned my test link on the wrong distant object. This was only a difference of 1 degree (so the test was valid) but might be enough to avoid moving anything.

January 2025

• Added LiFePO4 battery charger instead of using the SLA charger in the EdgePower.

Jan 2025

• Repointed (again) backbone dish at Wolfback. This is as good as it gets. Why no better is unclear. Dish is not horizontal so perhaps that is the issue.
• Sighted East Bay Hill (EBH) site from both the main ORCA radio utility pole as well as the secondary.
• Cleared away tree top in path to EBH. More cutting would be good but a path is now available.
• Move site's internet connection (an old Ubiquiti Loco) onto the secondary pole.
• Strapped down hAP and EdgeRouter to their shelf using zipties.

February 2024

• Installed Mimosa 10GHz dish + B11 radio pointing at Hurricane Electric
• Replaced CRS112 with RB5009UG+S+IN

July 2023

• Added Mikrotik CRS112 and Mikrotik hAP ac2 inside shack
• Added Rocket 5ac lite + 90° sector on ham tower

March 2024 / 2

• Adjust dish positioning to improve SNR.

February 2024

• Adjusted and raised dish to try to get connection to Fire Station 8, but failed. Looks like the landfill is just too high now.
• Repointed dish at Mount Allison for alternate path.
  • Observer 10GHz beacon at Mt Allison on radio's spectrum analyzer

January 2024 / 2

• Installed KVM
• Labelled newly installed cables
• Terminated and installed roof ethernet
  • Cable has been pulled to the roof by HE.

December 2023 / 3

• Setup peering with ARIX on 1G optics

December 2023 / 1

• Installed Router
• Installed Proxmox Server
• Installed SFP Media Converter
• Attached HE fiber to Router

August 2023

• Provided 3 public backbone IPs to use with repeater.

June 2023

• With the mounting of the new pole at the site, we can move forward with an AREDN system.

March 2024

• Replaced Mikrotik CRS112-8P-4S-1N with Mikrotik RB5009UPr+S+in

August 2023

• Replace Rocket M5s with Rocket 5AC Lites

June 2023

• Based on Mike's feedback from the May visit, rerouted all our cables from the "downspout" entry into the shack to the "gland" entry point. Now all our cables go in the official way.
• Rerouted the south cabling on the tower to follow and hide behind the tower beams (per Mike) to make the install much cleaner.
• Move the NUC11 ethernet cable to the switch to allow experimenting using the NUC to manage the backbone traffic.
• Installed the new rubber entry "thingy", rerouted cables through it, and trimmed and re-terminated.
• Installed new Mikrotik Router CRS112-8P-4S-IN
• Removed UISP Router and the rack shelf it was on.

March 2023

• Re-terminated the cable to KN6PLV-SANBRUNO-RM. Radio was replaced thinking the connector was broken, but looks like it was bad termination. Note that the cable to this radio is only single skinned rather than the double skinned burial grade we now use.

June 2023

• Hooked camera to it's own ethernet so it can use 802.3af. Now operational.
• Added ventilation controller to box to manage fans.