We have had a busy start to the first part of May here at W8CMN. We know John, WB8RCR SK is smiling down on all the hard work accomplished the past week. We have brought 55 miles of 10Ghz microwave online going from our site west of Lansing to the State EOC in Diamondale through …
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2023 Q1 W8CMN Network Update
While it may have been a while since we have posted what we have been up to at W8CMN we haven’t been relaxing or hibernating. Let this post be the “First Quarter 2023” W8CMN Network report. It will cover items related to our grant project and unrelated to the grant. Nothing will be in a …
Christmas came early with new Mi5 and Mi6 sites online – 2022-12-12
It was cold and snowy this past Saturday with Sunday being just plain cold but the teams assembled and accomplished a lot. Saturday we all gathered at the new Midland tower site which is just southwest of the city of Midland. When the crews had finished for the day they installed three x 2’ Dishes, …
2022 November/October Project Update
Apologies for the lack of posting the past few weeks but we haven’t been idle. Going to give a post here on the items that we have completed at a number of existing and new sites on the network. The snow and cold haven’t stopped us, but weather delays have already hampered some plans a …
New Lansing Site Online – Lansing Work Party 2022-10-08
We are announcing that we have brought a new site online in the Lansing area. Lansing Collins is located on top of the new McLaren Greater Lansing campus building. The site currently has 5.9Ghz PtMP Sectors and 2.397ghz PtMP Omni online for client radios to connect to. This site is also serving as a hub …
One Down Fifty-Nine To Go – Mi6WAN ARDC Grant
On Sunday, September 18, 2022, members and directors of Central Michigan Emergency Network visited the first site in a project that has been in the works for over a year and a half and will continue for the next 18 months. That project is to replace all 3.4ghz Point-to-Point links in our network with 10/11ghz …
Mi6WAN Bay County Expansion
On Sunday July 25th 2021 members of CMN set out to the Bay City site to install the majority of the gear that was purchased with the help from the Bay Area Community Foundation grant that was received. This grant allowed for the purchase of the Point to Multi-Point Access points, Routers, Back-hauls and other …