Bostwick RPT
The southwest anchor of the London mesh. It sits high enough on the Bostwick Road corridor to hear the Lambeth and Byron approaches at the same time, which is the pair of paths that used to need two hops and a lot of luck.
Placeholder entry. The figures below are provisional and the photographs have not been taken yet.
Site and hardware
- Location
- Bostwick Road corridor, southwest London, Ontario
- Type
- Rooftop repeater, mains powered with battery backup
- Role
- Backbone — bridges the southwest approaches into the city mesh
- Hardware
- To be confirmed
- Antenna
- To be confirmed
- Height
- To be confirmed, above ground level
- Power
- Mains, with a battery sized to ride through an outage
- Radio profile
- 915 MHz ISM, matching the regional MeshCore profile
- Hosted by
- A local business, with our thanks
- Status
- Planned
The installation
Stand-in frames. The photographs from this site go here, in this order, once they have been taken.
The mast from the ground, showing the mount and the run
The enclosure open on the bench, before it was sealed
Modelled coverage from this height, before anything was mounted
What it opened up
Write the field notes here once the node is commissioned: which paths it carries that nothing else did, what it hears on a good day, and what the first winter did to the battery.
This is the part of the page people actually read. The specification above says what is bolted to the roof; this says whether it was worth climbing up there.
- Paths gained — the links this site carries that nothing else could
- Measured range — what was heard in the field, not what was modelled
- Known weaknesses — the directions it does not cover, stated plainly
Somewhere near here that could do the same?
The southwest still has gaps, and most of them are one roof away from being closed. Tell us where you are and how high it stands.