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ROOFTOP STUMBLER PROJECT

This project entailed mounting a chimney based antenna mast with an antenna rotor for 360 degree rotation. The antennas mounted on the mast above the rotor consisted of a 24dBi Mag Grid Directional and a 15dBi Yagi. Both of these antennas can be connected to any device in the computer lab below via LMR400 cables and N type connectors. These antennas can be connected into any laptop, AP, wireless router or remote wireless sniffer for various testing scenarios away from the roof. The antennas went up in the spring and I was able to "war-roof" the neighborhood. No access was conducted just basic enumeration of the neighborhood. A 1 watt(+30dBm) amp is also available for testing PtP/PtMP connectivity one plus miles away from the roof. Below are the pictures that outline the various stages of the project, the gear used, and the lab setup in general that is featured in this website. Enjoy....

Wireless Equipment Inventory for you Netstumblers. See the NEWS section for some of the other gear used in this project.

Laptops

	1 IBM T-20 ThinkPad with Win2k Server and 256Mb of ram loaded with all kinds goodies, professional and shareware apps. This unit is basically the main end point testing unit, Hacktop and second wireless router for PtP testing.
	1 Fujitsu Lifebook with Win2k Server and 196Mb of ram loaded with all kinds of applications and also functions as a wireless router and end client for testing.
	1 Toshiba Protégé 3110CT running Win2k Server acting as the lab's main wireless router with 196Mb of ram, AirSnare IDS, VNC and Tardis NTP server for clocking.

Wireless PC cards

	2 Oronico Gold with pigtail port
	1 Proxim Silver A/B card free from a seminar, no antenna port
	1 Cisco 350 with diversity antenna
	1 Cisco 350LMC without diversity antenna's just the dual ports for pigtails

Wireless gear - All equipment is for 2.4 GHz use on 802.11b or g systems

	1 24dBi Andrews 26T Mag Grid Directional antenna 11 degree Hoz/vert beamwidth, some side lobe
	1 15dBi Maxrad Wisp Yagi antenna with a 30 degree hoz/vert beamwidth, has major side lobes.
	1 14.5dBi Hyperlink Yagi used for mobile testing
	1 3dBi Magnetic mount Omni directional from Hyperlink
	2 Direct TV dishes not in use yet but will see(one of them) in the pictures below
	6 types of Cantennas varying in different sizes and shapes
	2 5' Sections of Channel Master Mast
	1 Channel Master TV antenna rotor with remote control
	200" of LMR-400 cable
	2 25' sections of LMR-400cable with N male to N female ends
	1 50' section of LMR-400 cable with N male to N female ends
	2 4' jumper sections of LMR-400 cable with N male to N female ends
	Various amounts of N type cripms(M/F), elbow adapters, N male to N male barrel, 4 hole flange mounts N female.
	Several Pigtails of different lengths 2-4' for Orinoco and Cisco adapters
	Several Pigtails with SMA connectors for the WSP100 and Aerocomm devices
	1 Teletronics 2.4 GHz 1 Watt Smart Amp
	1 Aerocomm SA3000 Spectrum Analyzer
	1 Network Chemistry WSP100 external 802.11b receiver protocol analyzer

Software

	Aerocomm Spectrum Analyzer used with external Aerocomm 2.4Ghz FHSS receiver
	Network Chemistry Packetyzer 802.11b Protocol Analyzer software for use with External receiver WSP100 - Kismet can be used with the WSP100/Neutrino IDS also
	LinkFerret 802.11b Protocol Analyzer for use with Cisco or Orinoco Cards
	Agilent Network Analyzer SW edition for use with non wep testing for VoIP over Wireless
	Various shareware utilities like Netstumbler et. al. for testing too numerous to list here.

Other

LAB Cisco routers for Mobile IP testing - see AMILABS website for details

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	Completed Project Rooftop Stumbler screenshots