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== 05-06 July 2005: Visit and APTN visit | == 05-06 July 2005: Visit and APTN film crew visit == | ||
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Image:Dwayne_Lassy.jpg|Dwayne and Lassy installing a mesh node | |||
Image:Node_open.jpg|Mesh node waterproof box open, showing wireless router | |||
Image:Lassy_Cantenna.jpg|Lassy installing cantenna | |||
Image:Agnus' House.jpg|Surfing the web at Agnus' house | |||
Image:David_APTN film crew.jpg|David with the APTN film crew | |||
Image:APTN_film crew.jpg|APTN film crew | |||
Image:Dwayne_Lassy_David.jpg|Dwayne, Lassy and David | |||
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==3 May - Sikele installation== | |||
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Image:Sikele_mounting1.jpg|Beginning the installation of the mounting bracket | |||
Image:Sikele_mounting2.jpg|Drilling mounting points | |||
Image:Sikele_mounting3.jpg|Bolting on bracket | |||
Image:Sikele_mast_preperation1.jpg|Fastening omni bracket to top of mast | |||
Image:Sikele_mast_preperation2.jpg|Attaching the Linksys outdoor housing | |||
Image:Sikele_mast_up.jpg|Attaching mast to bracket | |||
Image:Sikele_power_over_ethernet.jpg|Connecting the power of ethernet | |||
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==29 April 2005 - walkabout== | |||
These are various pictures taken on a drive-about to inspect various highsites and get signal readings from the clinic. | |||
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Image:Lassy_first_day.jpg|Probably Lassy's first day, here holding a Yaggi | |||
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===Ideal highsite=== | |||
We identified an ideal highsite, the owner worked in Johannesburg and was not at all interested in us mounting an antenna on his roof. The house itself sat exactly on the ridge and could see the clinic as well as the hospice. | |||
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Image:View_ideal_highsite1.jpg|Looking back towards the clinic | |||
Image:View_ideal_highsite2.jpg|Looking towards Sikele High | |||
Image:View_ideal_highsite3.jpg|Looking across the road towards the hospice | |||
Image:Ideal_highsite.jpg|A view of the house, we would have mounted the antenna on the leftmost part of the building | |||
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===Teachers' training centre=== | |||
The teachers' training centre would have been ideal but due to problems with equipment we never used this site. Know that we use OLSR this could probably be easily connected. | |||
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Image:Teachers_training_centre.jpg|Lassy outside Hazyview teachers centre, holding omni for signal testing | |||
Image:View_teachers_training_centre.jpg|Looking back towards the clinic, Legogote mountain to the left is very close to the clinic | |||
Image:Supervisor_teachers_training_centre1.jpg|The teachers centre supervisor | |||
Image:Supervisor_teachers_training_centre2.jpg|Supervisor on the steps of the Hazyview teachers centre | |||
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===ACTS clinic flats=== | |||
Last stop the clinic flats where we eventually installed a node. | |||
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Image:ACTS_flats.jpg|Looking up at the clinic flats from the clinic | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:10, 28 October 2007
01 - 02 July 2007: LinkNet from Macha, Zambia visit to Peebles Valley
13 October 2006: Visit
26 May 2006: Visit
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Acts Clinic roof before antenna installtion
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David, Dwayne and Annemijn
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Installing an antenna at the Acts clinic
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Nana installaling an antenna at the Acts hospice Legogote
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Peebles Valley
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Peebles Valley
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Granite outcrop
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Rusty can pointing the wrong way, but still working!!!
05-06 July 2005: Visit and APTN film crew visit
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Dwayne and Lassy installing a mesh node
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Mesh node waterproof box open, showing wireless router
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Lassy installing cantenna
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Surfing the web at Agnus' house
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David with the APTN film crew
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APTN film crew
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Dwayne, Lassy and David
3 May - Sikele installation
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Beginning the installation of the mounting bracket
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Drilling mounting points
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Bolting on bracket
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Fastening omni bracket to top of mast
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Attaching the Linksys outdoor housing
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Attaching mast to bracket
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Connecting the power of ethernet
29 April 2005 - walkabout
These are various pictures taken on a drive-about to inspect various highsites and get signal readings from the clinic.
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Probably Lassy's first day, here holding a Yaggi
Ideal highsite
We identified an ideal highsite, the owner worked in Johannesburg and was not at all interested in us mounting an antenna on his roof. The house itself sat exactly on the ridge and could see the clinic as well as the hospice.
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Looking back towards the clinic
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Looking towards Sikele High
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Looking across the road towards the hospice
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A view of the house, we would have mounted the antenna on the leftmost part of the building
Teachers' training centre
The teachers' training centre would have been ideal but due to problems with equipment we never used this site. Know that we use OLSR this could probably be easily connected.
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Lassy outside Hazyview teachers centre, holding omni for signal testing
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Looking back towards the clinic, Legogote mountain to the left is very close to the clinic
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The teachers centre supervisor
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Supervisor on the steps of the Hazyview teachers centre
ACTS clinic flats
Last stop the clinic flats where we eventually installed a node.
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Looking up at the clinic flats from the clinic