AREDN is great, but what we lack in my region for deployment are friends in high places. Specifically access to towers, roofs of buildings and so on that can support line-of-sight communications. That's what we lack. We used to be able to co-locate 2m metre equipment on public service towers until they went with 700MHz encrypted digital. Now it is harder. Thankfully not all public services have gone there, yet. Putting antennas on commercial & municipal towers is getting harder because a certified rigger is needed, which is hard on our meagre club budget.
AREDN is great, but what we lack in my region for deployment are friends in high places. Specifically access to towers, roofs of buildings and so on that can support line-of-sight communications. That's what we lack. We used to be able to co-locate 2m metre equipment on public service towers until they went with 700MHz encrypted digital. Now it is harder. Thankfully not all public services have gone there, yet. Putting antennas on commercial & municipal towers is getting harder because a certified rigger is needed, which is hard on our meagre club budget.
So what we really need is money.
73,
Chris VE3NRT
AREDN to Starlink has some fun potential. Wish mine would get delivered, Then I’ll connect it to the West Seattle AREDN and see what happens .
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