First of all, a short introduction. My name is Jim Walls, my call is K6CCC, and I live in Glendora, CA (DM14bc). I have been licensed since 1977 and have had an Extra class license for somewhere near 20 years. I also had a First class RadioTelephone license until the FCC grandfathered all those into the General Radio Telephone license a few decades ago. My primary interest in amateur radio is large UHF repeater systems, and have at times been very active in Fast Scan TV, RTTY (I still have three model 28 machines), and have several thousand contacts via satellite (still miss AO-40). As background, I have been a communications non-paid profession staff (Volunteer to most of you) with the California Governor's Office of Emergency Service for over 30 years. We deploy a combination of assets for everything from brush fires, earthquakes, airliner crashes, SAR, flooding (often follows fires), planned events such as the Baker to Vegas race, Super Bowls, political national conventions, and lots of other stuff. Professionally I run a fairly large regional Motorola trunked radio system that is used by around 30 cities in southern California.
I first became aware of AREDN a year or so ago, but did not do much with that knowledge. Last weekend I attended an hour or so talk about AREDN in Lake Havasu City, AZ. I have gained some more interest and have registered on this web system and spent quite a bit of time reading.
Now for my question (and yes, I did search the forum for this topic before asking), why is it that when looking at the AREDN Mesh Network Map, almost every time I look I see a different combination of bands? For example, I will look at the map and only see 3.4 GHz nodes. Next time I look, I only see 2.4 and 5.8GHz nodes. Next time, only 900 and 2.4 GHz nodes. Etc. Am I (or my browser) going crazy or is there a mapping issue? BTW, normally using FireFox on either a Windows 7 or Windows 10 computer, although I have seen the same thing on Chrome.
Jim,
Which map are you referring to? There are at least a dozen maps both on the mesh and on the internet that all display node information differently, have different filters, etc.
Try this map, it is one of the best to get started with:
https://mapping.kg6wxc.net/meshmap/map_display.php#9/33.8147/-118.1642
I would also recommend Don KE6BXT's outstanding website:
http://ocmesh.org
Since you are in the San Gabriel Valley I recommend you contact Gary Wong W6GSW@arrl.net or, better yet, come to the LAECT Activity Day at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, every fourth Saturday of the month, which always has a lot of mesh talk and experimentation and meet Gary in person. Gary is the SGV mesh guru and can answer any question you might have about mesh and help you get started if you are interested.
73,
Oliver K6OLI
See: https://www.arednmesh.org/comment/11350#comment-11350
Oliver, I had seen something about the get together at HMH. May try to get over there...