After some troubleshooting, and more troubleshooting, and even more troubleshooting, I am happy to announce that the AREDN node at Waggoners Gap is live and is connected to the AREDN network! The node is a 360° node with three sector antennas: 0° on channel 171, 120° on channel 175, and 240° on channel 179. All are running a bandwidth of 10 MHz
The backbone connections available to me use two different types of internet switches: Juniper and D-Link. The node on Blue Mountain north of Harrisburg is on a Juniper switch. The node on Waggoners Gap north of Carlisle is on a D-Link switch. It appears the D-Link switches implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) differently than Juniper does. Once STP was turned off for the switch port I was assigned, the node connected to the outside world in a matter of seconds.
Back in January, I did a little research and discovered that the Cumberland County DPS building is only seven miles away from Waggoners Gap, 5° off of the center line of the 120° sector antenna. Once it gets warmer, I’ll be testing the node’s coverage; for now, I hope the folks in Carlisle and Mt. Holly can connect and provide me with some coverage data.
If you are in Cumberland or Perry County, test the node out, and send a report to me at N3FUD at Krohsnest.com. Include your location