Has anyone on the list had any experience with building a mesh for a 23cm DD network?
I'm involved with an emcomm project where several hospitals need internet-free backup data communications to a facility called the Medical Coordination Center (MCC). Some of the hospitals are close enough to the MCC that an airlink can be established with an ID-1 and a yagi antenna, the other hospitals are just too far away. Several ID-RP2C/RP2D units and ID-1s have been purchased (but not installed yet). It seems the RP2Ds would require an internet connection to move data to the MCC and if there were a regional internet outage (hurricanes are our primary scenario) that would render the network ineffective. My thought that a mesh network of all the RP2Ds and ID-1s would eliminate the need for an internet backhaul and allow the network to automagically reconfigure as nodes come and go. The project has a few relatively tall sites to locate equipment and geographically the area is almost Iowa flat (no offense to the fine folks from Iowa). I've been looking at the freeware mesh tools the Mitre Corp. Technology Transfer Office has made available, does anyone have any experience with them? 73, John K2ZA (formerly AA2BN)
