{"id":518,"date":"2025-08-09T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:47:40","slug":"equipment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For your convenience, I've included some links to the equipment used in creating and\/or using our AREDN network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These are affiliate links, and I (Bob, W6EI) earn a small commission.  Your price is unaffected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4bHGWSm\">MikroTik hAP ac lite<\/a> (least expensive hAP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41DYuc5\">MikroTik hAP ac2<\/a> (faster processor, but a little more expensive)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PJzQnN\">GPS dongle<\/a> for either hAP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NXo6NN\">24 volt battery pack<\/a> for powering either hAP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4b0UV5j\">USB-to-ethernet adapter<\/a> (USB-C) for Mac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4sqc7qx\">USB-to-ethernet adapter<\/a> (USB-C), Windows\/Mac -- I have not personally tested this one<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4tfozKk\">Waveshare LoRa + GPS HAT for Raspberry Pi<\/a> (obsolete -- sub-standard performance on long messages)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dlPvDE\">Waveshare PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi 4B<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NzrQoQ\">Weatherproof enclosure for Meshtastic repeaters<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41ALdRA\">SMA-to-N-Female pigtail<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your convenience, I've included some links to the equipment used in creating and\/or using our AREDN network. Amazon These are affiliate links, and I (Bob, W6EI) earn a small commission. Your price is unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","vkExUnit_sitemap":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","_exclude_from_list_pages":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","vkExUnit_childPageIndex":"","vkExUnit_pageList_ancestor":"","vkExUnit_contact_enable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aredn.paloalto.city\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}