Recon Group Documentation Page
Important Information
Initial Wardrive/Site Survey info has been posted to http://jonshouse.dyndns.org/wardrive/wardrive.htm
SITE SURVEY TOOLS
- Digital Camera's (Jon, Matt, Aaron, Russell)
- GPS (Russell, Jon...but no mapping software)
- Various Site Survey Tools: Kismet, Airsnort, Netstumbler, ect. (everybody)
- Notepads (everybody)
- Photoshop and picture stitch skills (Matthew, Jon)
- Pocket Transem... fancy compass... don't know what this is exactly but Russell Has it.
THINGS WE MAY NEED AT THE NEXT MEETING
- Measuring tapes
- Rope
- Binoculars
- Everything listed under site tools above
FIRST THREE BUILDING LOCATIONS
- 4008 N. Mississippi Ave (Brick two Story)
- 932 Freemont St. (Residential BUilding)
- Middle, unknown location (contact Michael Weinberg) SEE ALSO: CONCERN SECTION
THINGS TO DOCUMENT AT EACH LOCATION
- Height of building
- Panoramic shots from North, South, East, West.
- Rooftop mounting locations (chimney, nice physical vantage, non-penetrating roof mounting, etc.)
- Approximate Distance to other locations (mostly derived data from GPS)
- Downtilt Mapping From Ideal antenna locations
- Equipment Vulnerability (weather, theft)
- Power Locations inside the building with approximate cable run length to access point locations.
- Space within buildings for equipment houseing. (description, physical location, power situation)
- Procedure for gaining access to the facility for equipment maintenance.
CONCERNS
- If the nursery is to be the middle location we should plan around the fact that across Mississippi to the east there is a line of site blockage (approximately 30 degrees by guestimate) by the Richards Homewares Warehouse, which is a mostly metal building, including a metal roof. We will have more information on this later.
- We are concerned about electrical codes and should seek community support in the form of an electrical contractor.