GoKits

Basic "phonebooth" kit with the phone (GXP-1630) going to the Mikrotik SXTsq 5. Front right corner has two RJ45 panel mounts. 12V/5V step-down for the phone. 10Ah Dakota Lithium battery. Apache 2800 case.


 

KH6ML - Portable AREDN Backpack with PC / VOIP phone direct dial SXT  - https://youtu.be/W7-wqhhhvJY

KH7HO -AREDN Mesh portable LHG hAP mikrotik EMCOMM - https://youtu.be/bQFERyFHwEo

I've reconfigured my portable equipment, and thought the group might be interested in this. It's a completely self-contained pole-mounted go-kit. No wires dangling down to the ground. This is all powered by the 20V lithium batteries my trimmer takes (In this case Black & Decker, but you could make it work with just about any brand). The node demonstrated is my Nanostation, which I use as a test node, though I intend on putting my MantBox on there instead. On the side, the box with the NWO Aredn Mesh logo is a Mikrotik outdoor grade 2.4GHz access point, running on channel 11.

Stanley is a Mesh Go-Kit that I put together at the end of the summer. When deployed, Stanley consists of a 2 GHz WiFi client, and a 5 GHz node capable of being a tunnel client. Both units are NanoStation Loco's. When deployed, Stanley looks like this:

OK, I've just finished putting together my ammo can go kit. I will be using a cheap android phone to serve as a terminal, camera, and/or phone extension, as needed. It's got a battery built in, a power switch on the outside, a very small node (AR-150-ext), an AR-MT300N to act as a wifi client, 5V, 24V and 48V power supplies, and a slightly modified POE switch to provide both 24V and 48V ports. The battery is a 7AH gel cell, with 1/4in tabs. It fits perfectly on end inside the plastic ammo can. The plastic was also easy to cut a slot out of for cables to come out as needed.

Around January of 2022 I decide to play around with a GL-iNet AR-750.

What I wound up with is a really portable node that has Mesh RF on 2 GHz ch -2 and a LAN access point on 5 GHz. And, it is powered by a 10,000 mAH usb battery which lasts 7 or 8 hours. It also has a tunnel client that can connect back home if one of the RF ports is changed over to a WiFi client. And, some other goodies found their way into the node.