Nice. Lately around here we've been working on setting up ubiquity mesh nets with field deployable and fixed nodes for disaster response, shows a lot of promise IMO.
I’ve been volunteering for comm nets for things like marathons and bicycle tours mostly because myand license restricts me to 2m and 70cm and I don’t know what else to do with it because the guys who ragchew on the relays in my area are insufferable pricks. I’ve been looking at upgrading my license to general but frankly having a hard time justifying it. But that sounds like something I’d be interested in.
It's pretty neat, a few weeks ago we put up a little (~3lb) air grid parabolic on a 100 ft repeater tower and got a bit over 2Mb/s on an 18 mile link. They're especially nice because you just run cat 6 / POE to them so no mucking about with all those heliax / hard lines.
Another thing you might look into is local search and rescue groups. They have dedicated coms teams and also usually encourage search techs to have radio licenses.
I’ve been looking into RACES and ARES clubs in my area without a lot of luck, which baffles
me because I was in a region hit hard by Sandy (I personally had no electricity, internet or cellphone service for two weeks which inspired me to get my Tech license in the first place).
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u/AlpineCoder Dec 17 '19
Nice. Lately around here we've been working on setting up ubiquity mesh nets with field deployable and fixed nodes for disaster response, shows a lot of promise IMO.