7.27.08
AW66 Up!
Don has placed AW's latest node on the air. AW66 sits atop a 3-story home on the north shore of Bay Farm Island (BFI), east of AW4. AW66 provides coverage along the south side of the main island as well as penetration into the middle areas of Harbor Bay Isle. AW66 uses a mast-mounted node router, and is the first AW node to run the pcengines ALIX single board computer. AW66 runs a Voyage Linux OS. AW66 also is the first AW node to house an embedded computer inside a Pacific Wireless Rootena. The Rootenna is a directional panel antenna "with a pouch" - a compartment inside the antenna enclosure that houses the computerboard. This way, the antenna doubles as a weather tight enclosure for the router. AW66 is powered by a pair of 400 mW Engenious /a/b/g radios.

3.20.08
Alameda Hospital Up!
AW61 is our latest node, now atop the 8-story Administration building at Alameda Hospital. AW61 is ideally situated in the center of the main island as the third highest node elevation in the AW Network. This node will be able to reach many locations in the central portion of the main island as well as to link many more distant portions of Alameda and surrounding cities. AW61 is using 350 mW Mikrotik /a/b/g radios. AW61 is the second key node funded solely from donations to AW.

2.9.08
USS Hornet Up!
AW56 is our latest node, now up aboard the USS Hornet. The AW56 antennas are mounted at the top of the island at the level of the base of the mast. This is a key node, with the highest "flatland" elevation in the AW Network at well over 100' above sea level. AW55 is of course higher, atop the Oakland hills. AW56 is the first node to use Mikrotik 350 mW /a/b/g radios. AW56 is the first node funded by donations to AW, and is the fruition of many members' labor. This node can reach nearly any spot in Alameda.

10.17.07
AW65 Up!
AW65 is our newest node, now up at just to the west of Alameda High School. Tony has done a great job of getting his node designed, installed, configured and operating. AW65 uplinks to AW63, which uplinks to AW4.

4.17.07
Airport Node Up!
AW62 is our newest node, now up at the private plane hangers of Oakland Airport's North Field. Bill, Joe and Paul have done a fantastic job getting this node on the air. It uplinks to AW55 using a 24 dBi parabolic antenna and intends to serve the broadband needs of private pilots at the airport. This node had to successfully overcome AW's first instance of intentional radio interference - from a nearby industrial plant.

4.09.07
Lucky 13 Up!
AW63 is Lucky 13 (formerly The Buckhorn), at the intersection of Park and Encinal, is AW's newest node. AW63 has a 3.5 mbit/s. link to AW4. Doug and Dan put 400 mW Senao a/b/g radios into this router. AW4 is in the process of converting two of it's radios to the same model Senao. Once AW4 has a/b/g radios, testing will begin with /g speeds between AW1, AW4 and AW63. This will be our first 802.11g testing. We hope to see even faster data transfer speeds - perhaps approaching 20 Mbits/s. with the /g links.

10.10.06
Oakland Tower Up!
Welcome AW55. During the history of AW we have tried to spread our wings, first to SF and then via the Oakland hills, but we finally have a working node high up in the hills, from here we should be able to connect to the north end of the island instead of waiting for all the intermediary nodes to come online.