Below is what my memory was able to remember. Please make changes and add additional information that I may have missed. Saturday’s meeting was great! I did not attempt to bleed out all over the floor this month but K0ECW was prepared.
In adteenance: KD0CGN, W0GSK, WA0PCC, KF9MT, KD0JHZ, N0YWB, K9PYR, NM5PB and N0ZJT. If I missed anyone I am sorry, please add them/yourself.
Linn Co AREDN aka EIEDN has started to prep the Linn Co EOC for a permanent AREDN and Meshtastic node. Determined in the fun windy Friday afternoon that we needed a couple sticks of tower in order to support the Ubiquiti Powerbeam and Rocket M5 with 13 dbi omni antenna due to wind load and required height to get over an adjacent building for a point to point connection to the Mercy Hospital Downtown location. (If you know of anyone with a tower collecting rust and they want it moved, let me know.)
Continuing to work on the AREDN and Meshtastic nodes on the Mercy Hospital tower at the Downtown location. We’re looking at 2 Powerbeam dishes and a Rocket with 13 dbi omni there as well.
Work has begun on a RF link to Muscatine.
Along with getting the RF Mesh going we’re building out MeshPhone where we’ll have permanent PBXes meshed together at some of the locations above along with in the eComs Trailer and a couple go-kits.
AREDN will have a very strong and required presence at Field Day this year as it will be the backbone network for all of the logging PCs and potentially live streams of the event.
AREDN will be deployed to different events where our main task is health and welfare of participants first and foremost but we’ll utilize AREDN abilities with CCTV for “another set of eyes” at these events as well.