I need to link via a 19 mile RF path and need some advice and guidance.

Near site is on top of a building with 3" pipe available up to about 25'. Far end is on top of a mountain at 2500'. Clear shot, no fresnel issues.

I was considering the Ubiquity Air Mesh with the larger grid, however the specs put it near its maximum range. 

Anyone with real world experience that can provide suggestions? 

Ron, N1AHH

I am interested in your project. However I am a newbie at this mesh stuff. Fair IT background, but been out of the business for 15 years now so all information subject to brain scramble.

I live in a remote desert community. Few hams local, however we are trying to do some long range RF hops to expand the mesh.

Interested in news feeds, e-mail and tunneling.

I will be here in the southern AZ desert until May or so when we move to Maine. Again a very rural area. From there we will head to my daughters farm in Brazil sometime in January. Again a very remote area. so setting up news, email and tunneling would be of great interest.

How do you suggest we proceed?

I have Pi and stack of meshed routers in hand.

N1AHH

Hi,

You cna install OpenBCM software whre you have typical BBS with W0RLI forward via telnet to other AX.25 Packet Radio BBS.  OpenBCM have SMTP/POP3 server and NNTP server. You can get access to OpenBCM via http web browser to read and post or use Mail client like Thunderbird to read and post to OpenBCM via NNTP reader or via SMTP.

I have use OpenBCM on my Raspberry PI and working very nice and I have forwarding with other (stil exist) Packet Radio BBS and local users can connect to my system use different way

http://sp2ong.ampr.org:9080

or via NNTP/SMTP/POP3 via Mail client

You can download OpenBCM from http://dnx274.org/baybox/pages/download.html

73 Waldek sp2ong

scratch that sorry ... I guess I need to pick up a M2 ...

I have a pair of Airgrid M5 (can't remember if they're HP or not) but I'm on a business trp and won't return home till Saturday... will post the board.info stuff here when I get home.

I have a request on the 5GHz Stuff.  Can you set the channel up at around 5.910 GHz 20MHz wide... reason, I live near Eglin AFB and they've asked us to avoid transmitting between 5.65 and 5.90 GHz... I'm probably ok at 5.850 and higher but I'd like to avoid if possible.

Roger that, When I get home I'll investigate , will be Saturday night or Sunday.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Hello Tom,

We are still looking for board.info files from M5 devices in order to add them to the supported device list and bring official support to the 5ghz band.

Please see: http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/hsmm-mesh-forums/view-postlist/forum-37-ubnt-firmware/topic-759-help-us-gather-info-on-ubnt-devices.html#ccbp3366

At the moment the user interface doesn't make any accommodation for the difference between 2.4 and 5.8ghz bands.

If you have a chance to submit the board.info file it would go towards adding support for your device into the next build for both your use and others.

Wondering if anyone has built a mesh-only NNTP presence. NNTP is well suited for decentralized group messaging, Everyone could have a NNTP server OR there could be 1 or 2 on each local mesh area.  NNTP is scalable, distributed and decentralized and for this reason I think it would work well on the mesh.

I've built an email (SMTP/IMAP4) server and NNTP server on a Raspberry Pi and attached it to one of my two nodes.  I do believe we could port a couple of the ham radio related usenet groups onto the mesh, but I've chosen NOT to at this point because I really don't want to rely on the public internet.  Currently have just a few local newsgroups created on it but there are just test articles in the message base.

Anyone else want to try to try and give this a whirl to see if it really makes sense or not? I'm willing to build some IP tunnels through the internet to other mesh areas if there is other interest.

Tom:

Drop me a line at kv4pc at qsl dot net and I will give you the scoop.

73;

Bob KV4PC

Hello Darryl, Bob,

Trying to gauge how much interest there is in mesh in your area. Two reasons... First is my Mom lives in Pulaski, TN not too far away from Huntsville and when I make trips up there I might bring so gear with me to test to see if my portable node would join the mesh when we go to Huntsville... Second, I'm trying to get people interested in my neck of the woods (Panhandle of FL) and there doesn't seem to b a lot of interest. I think I have a couple of takers but we'll see as I assemble stuff...

How did your meeting go on the 30th?

I'm working to roll out Mesh in my area of the NW Florida Panhandle, already have a pair of Linksys configured but also have a pair of Ubiquity Airgrid M5s... Can't remember if I have HP versions of these, but both the Airgrid M5 and Airgrid M5 HP have 32MB SDRAM and 8MB Flash, so I'm going to try to load up the firmware when I get home... I'm currently on a business trip but will attempt to flash this weekend and report back.

73 de n2xu

Tom Cardinal/MSgt USAF (Ret)/BSCS, Security+

Mesh Any One???

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The 2014 UVHFS swapmeet will be held at the same location as the 2013 swap meet - the Davis County Fair Grounds Building #2

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Thanks Paul!

The distribution you noted is the one I installed.

I'll work on the rest of your suggestions now.

I appreciate your patience with old guys like me.

73

Fred

Where can I find the RaspberryPi-Asterisk FreePBX Distro that you mentioned?
http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/documentation/

"Could not Contact Boot Service" Loading App App=Sip.ld Both phones have NO dial tone and " url call is disabled " displays when off hook.
That happens because the phone is trying to contact a boot server for provisioning. This can be reset in the setup menu when the phone is first booting up.

Manual configuration of the phones:
http://www.3cx.com/sip-phones/manually-configure-polycom-soundpoint/ If you cannot see a WebGUI, you will need to upgrade your phone to the latest compatible firmware and BOOTROM too (see the belows).

FTP Server for Files:
You will need to grab the newest firmware and config settings from http://downloads.polycom.com/voice/voip/sip_sw_releases_matrix.html. Place them on the server, and point the phone (configured from setup when the phone is booting) to the FTP server address. It'll help if you could also glance over the Administrator manual for the Polycom devices.

Same rules apply: http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/hsmm-files/ip-phone-files/183-polycom-ip-601-files.html

Hopefully this will get you pointed in the right direction.

Aha DNS suffix setting, That did the trick.

Many Thanks

Rob

Thank you!  I got it back....finally. 

I followed the instructions inserted in your post for "Manual Configuration" as far as setting the IP Address and netmask manually.  (did a search on google to find out how to manually change those).

Then using the second article you hyperlinked to in your response, (ie., connecting a computer to the LAN port on the access point, and then connecting the mesh-node to access point with a CAT 5 via the LAN ports).  Then I was able to pull up the "lost" mesh node and get into it and change it back from an Access Point to a Mesh Node.  At that point, I thought everything was ok.  It wasn't - I had to go back and change the IP Address / Netmask back from the "static" setting to "obtain IP Address Automatically".

I did a search on "How to Assign a Static IP Address" and got instructions on how to do that. 

Took me a few hours to get it - but its done.  Won't do THAT again.  Thanks.

Hello Rob,

Well I am partial to linux myself so you will not see me argue with that suggestion.

the search root is also known as dns suffix.

Navigate to your network connection > properties > tcp/ip v4 > properties > advanced > dns > edit the suffix list or set the default suffix to local.mesh. (DHCP usually does this for you hence why you need to do this manually )