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=== Plans ===
 
=== Plans ===
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While nothing immediate is planned, it would be good to sling a link here from [[San Bruno Mountain (Building 7)]]. There's a clear shot between the two.
 
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* Add airFiber + 30dBi dish connecting to [[San Bruno Mountain (Building 7)|San Bruno Mountain]]
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* Replace hAP lite with hAP ac2
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* Remove PowerBeam
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* Add camera
   
 
== Nodes ==
 
== Nodes ==

Revision as of 22:22, 1 March 2023

Site 4

BAY-NET (WW6BAY)

Site located off the Black Mountain Trail near the Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve in the Los Altos Hills (map)(photos)

Road to the site is private and closed by a padlocked gate. The secure area at the site is managed by Crown Castle using a timed bluetooth enabled key dropbox. There are a number of tower up at Black Mountain:

  • Site 1 - An old abandoned tower possibly still owned by Stanford University. Previously the site of the Stanford Amateur Radio Club (W6YX) repeater and Stanford's Instruction TV.
  • Site 2 - Commercial site, but with a small HAM building.
  • Site 3 - FAA
  • Site 4 - The BAY-NET tower where AREDN is located
  • Site 5 - WB6ECE Repeater Group

Site 1 is at the highest point.

Site Details

Configuration

Black Mountain hosts a Mikrotik hAP, a Ubiquiti PowerBeam and a Ubiquiti Rocket M5 XW with 120 degree sector. WAN access to the hAP is on 44net, provide by a non-AREDN related switch managed by KI6ZHD.

Device wiring runs through independently power PoE injectors, then to lightning arrestors, and finally out to the devices on the tower.

VLANs
VLAN Description
1 AREDN WAN
2 AREDN DtD
1002 Management
hAP
Port Description VLANs Notes
1 WAN - To 44net on non-AREDN related switch
2 LAN Unused and taped over
3 LAN Unused and taped over
4 N9JIM-PBE2 2 A custom change on this device has reconfigured this port to be an addition DtD
5 N9JIM-BlackMtn 2

Plans

  • Add airFiber + 30dBi dish connecting to San Bruno Mountain
  • Replace hAP lite with hAP ac2
  • Remove PowerBeam
  • Add camera

Nodes

BlackM AT 13.jpg

N9JIM-BlackMtn

Radio: Ubiquiti Rocket M5 XW

Antenna: 120° sector

Location: 37.3201632, -122.1437596

Altitude: 850m

Bearing: 55° toward Sunnyvale

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N9JIM-PBE2

Radio: Ubiquiti PowerBeam M5 XW 300

Antenna: Built in 22 dBi

Location: 37.32020, -122.14382

Altitude: 826m

Bearing: 356° toward Facebook Menlo Park

N9JIM-HAP1

Radio: MikroTik hAP ac lite

Antenna: -

Location: 37.3201632, -122.1437596

Altitude: -

Bearing: -

Commercial Neighbors

Etheric Networks

The local WISP in this area is Etheric. They license (WQMK876) spectrum in the 6.2 GHz, 10.5 GHz and 19.5 GHz regions.

Contacts

  • Jim Moss - N9JIM - n9jim@pacbell.net
  • David Ranch - KI6ZHD - sfwem@trinnet.net