Re: [WISPA] Motor controlled rotating poles
Wow, an ethernet slip ring...bet that could cause all sorts of problems. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:54 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Motor controlled rotating poles I think a simple TV antenna rotator would do the trick. If you got an IP camera with dry contact outputs, like the Axis network cameras, you could wire up some relays connected to the outputs of the camera that would rotate the pole in either direction. The contact outputs on the axis cameras can be controlled through the web interface. You'd need a slip ring arrangement of some sort or limit switches on the rotator so that your ethernet and control cables don't get all wrapped up when the pole rotates, of course. Patrick Tom, I would try and look up something from the ham radio realm. They have remote control systems for remote mounted radios. My idea would be is you can find something with a software package that can remotely control a rotor. This rotor would have your AP and camera mounted to the short section of mast on top of the rotor. This could be an inexpensive TV antenna rotor. Off the top of my head I can't think of anything that I know does this but that's because I don't play with remote controlled radios much. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com http://www.wirelessmapping.com -Original Message- From: Tom DeReggi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:21 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Motor controlled rotating poles For the longest time, I wanted to build a solution to do the following, from each of our Master Cell Sites 1) Rotate a IP Camera 360 deg (remotely over an IP connection) 2) Rotate a Pole with a Trango Fox 5800SU on it 360 deg (remotely over IP connection). The purpose is two fold When Link quality severally degrades for a short period, either packet loss or rssi, 1) To discover/view when there is a third party worker working on the roof of our cell site. (Who may be standing in front of antennas periodically or testing gear that interfers without getting pre-approved) 2) To do a spectrum site survey, on the fly in any direction, to find the least noisy channel, WITHOUT taking the primary sector antenna down (offline). By having the radio and the camera on the same pole, it would help confirm which direction we were pointing exactly when doing the survey. One of the other requirements is that it won't turn more that 360 in one direction to prevent cable CAT5 breaking, and to ahve a refference of the starting point in deg, calibrated to a known direction (north 0 deg?). What would REALLY be cool, is if it had a speaker out put on the camera, so I could yell at the worker standing in front of my antenna :-). I'm aware that some camera may have an output for controlling a relay or servo motor, as some solutions/platforms exist to mount and rotate a single camera attached. Preferably, I'd like a solution that could rotate the pole itself. Everything of course would need to be outdoor survivable, and strong enough that the pole would stay errect and safe at 200-300 feet up. My thought is that maybe the controls could be initiated from the IP Camera connections, If I found a rotating platform/pole mount. Are there any mechanical hobbyists out there, that might suggest the most cost effective way to accomplish this? (My goal is lowest cost, lowest cost, lowest cost, so I can afford to replicate the solution at about 20 locations) Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Talking Point: Broadband Scandal book
SBC has already proven that at $17.99 people will move from dial-up to DSL. So is it that people don't want it or that consumers don't want to pay that much for it? It's like free pie and chips...who doesn't want free pie and chips..it's pie..and chips for free... Sorry, couldn't resist. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Super Range 9 cards...
Excuse the stupid question, but I haven't been following this as closely as I should. Will Mikrotik or StarOS or something else have support for these cards when they become available? - Original Message - From: Brian Rohrbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Super Range 9 cards... Cheapest I've seen. http://www.wlanparts.com/c=da6prIomuvjmG0UcG1Ew8CvHC/product/SR9 *Available March or April. Now Accepting Pre-Orders.* *Price: * $149.90 Blair Davis wrote: Anyone got a ship date on the SR9 cards? -- Brian Rohrbacher Reliable Internet, LLC www.reliableinter.net Cell 269-838-8338 Caught up in the Air 1 Thess. 4:17 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Virtual AP
I still rest better at night knowing my network doesn't show up in every teenager's copy of Netstumbler.. - Original Message - From: Blair Davis To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Virtual AP The downside of proprietary systems is the being 'held hostage' to the one manufacture As some of us have already discovered.And just because you have a network based on 'proprietary system', don't think you are 'safe'. You are not.BlairKurt Fankhauser wrote: I did it to expose the problems associated with 802.11b/g which is a technology that was NOT designed for what it is being used for today. I think several people on the list realized what tricks can be done with the SSID and now they are smarter because I posted it. The whole point of the post is that you need to use a proprietary solution that was designed for WISP usage. If you were a professional WISP you would be using such solution and thus YOU and YOUR customers would not be subject to someone doing this to you. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC 114 S. Walnut St. Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of George Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:14 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Virtual AP Kurt Your killing me. This has to be the lowest underhanded thing I've heard on these list from a fellow wisp. The goal to win is a fine goal, but winning by cheating is not a win at all, it's an admission of failure. You need to understand that integrity and success go hand in hand. Shaking my head. George And I only let you off lightly because your a young kid, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: I do that too, 3 competitors have towers all within ¼ mile of each other, I put their ssid in my AP but turn the broadcast off, their clients associate to me and I deny all their access so when they try to hook up customers it looks like their connected but they cant figure out why it doesnt work, keeps them from signing up clients in my area. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC 114 S. Walnut St. Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Rick Smith *Sent:* Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:12 AM *To:* 'WISPA General List' *Subject:* RE: [WISPA] Virtual AP actually, I was kidding about the competitor thing, wanted to see if it'd start a fire. It's something I'd thought of, but you can't route based on Virtual AP SSID Having an invididual hotspot page per virtual SSID would be cool, on a wholesale level... *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Scott Reed *Sent:* Tuesday, December 27, 2005 10:44 AM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* RE: [WISPA] Virtual AP What happens when a potential customer sees the competition's name? They call the competitor who says, "We don't do that." Then what, do you get called by the competitor? I guess my question is, how does advertising the competitor's name help you? I like the wholesale idea though. I may have to pursue that in the future. Scott Reed Owner NewWays Wireless Networking Network Design, Installation and Administration www.nwwnet.net http://www.nwwnet.net/ The season is Christmas, not X-mas, not the holiday, but Christmas, because Christ was born to provide salvation to all who will believe! *-- Original Message ---* From: Rick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'WISPA General List'" wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:15:08 -0500 Subject: RE: [WISPA] Virtual AP Yep, I create virtual SSIDs for all my competitors names (they only do DSL) :) I also wholesale service off one of my towers via 2.4 and 900 mhz to a local computer guy that likes to see his name "in the air" - the virtual SSID thing was a natural win... Not sure about the broadcast thing...haven't seen a performance hit because of the virtual ssid's ... R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pete Davis Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:57 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Virtual AP Mikrotik APs have the capability to create a "Virtual AP" with a secondary SSID, but I haven't found much documentation about it. Has anyone used this feature much? I could see this being useful during a transitional period, while you are changing the SSID, so you can access the CPE with the "old" ssid. I could also see this being useful for colocating two companies on the
[WISPA] anyone have SCADA expertise?
I have a water tower near one of my 900Mhz ap's that's causing me a lot of interference due to the water company's SCADA stuff. Does anyone know if the devices they use have channel control in terms of switching channels within 900Mhz or are they all over the place all the time. I have a sense the water company might do some channel management with me, but I wanted to know if their equipment had that capability before I made the enquiry. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
