Event support report and first use of Mikrotik hAP AC lite

Some more details...
As a kind of pilot project, we delivered alternative comms for the red cross using amateur radio.
The marathon event (about 7800 runners), together with the international gospel event in town made 240 forces with 55 units take place in that game.

One part was tracking the runners field with APRS. For this purpose one station was installed on a tower in town center. This station also linked the castle with another unit via AREDN.
The main AREDN station was installed on the rooftop of the Heinrich-Hertz vocational school where I am working. Because we could not connect the EOC at Europahalle, I had to change the plan. Satellite internet and RasPBX had to be deployed to the school because it was the middle of the net.
From there, connection to the tower and the firefighters headquater could established with one Powerbeam M5 300-ISO (same direction).
Another Powerbeam connected the stadium and with a repeater unit the EOC. There was the placement of the email-server using RMS-Relay on a Tougbook CF-19. All stations had a normal Mikrotik Router for wifi and a Toughpad (rugged tablet, for scanning lists and running the chat etc) and VoIP to analog phone converters.
One nice feature, if you have a public IP address, is dialing in to the meshchat using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/meshchat on a phone or notebook from outside world.
For this usecase the normal Mikrotik router will be reused as a security gateway.

The main station consists of an Viasat satellite modem that fed the AREDN Mikrotik directly. In the picture it is the lower one. I tried to install the tunnel server during the event but that was not possible with NB264 because one day before a new nightly build came out.
The upper Mikrotik was used for wifi to setup the sat system with a mobile phone and to provide an local AREDN wifi access.

First picture:
on top of the 9.5" case the satellite modem, powered with DC/DC converter from battery,
1st row: two Powerpole outlets, powerswitch for the wifi Mikrotik and the Raspberry Pi, voltage meter (inside the Case is a 15Ah LiFePo4 battery)
2nd row: Mikrotik for wifi, Raspberry Pi3 as PBX phone server
3rd row: Ubiquiti Toughswitch 5, used for PoE and DtD
4rd row: AREDN Mikrotik, replaces AirRouter, used as internet gateway, announcing services for meshchat and PBX, DtD port is multiplied by theToughswitch
last row: passive 8port Switch for local devices

Second picture:
Screenshot from AREDN Mikrotik, taken at the firerfighters place.

Third picture:
previous version used at the tunnel drill...

Normally this case is placed at the EOC car together with the sat system.

73 Timm DL4FLY

More pictures:
https://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/notfunk/meldungen/meldungen-details/news/grossubung-wattkopftunnel-bei-karlsruhe-ettlingen-am-21072018/