DEFINE THE GAP
Start with an actual dead zone, weak route, community need, or missing field evidence. Do not deploy infrastructure merely because a peak looks high.
20 / NODE PLACEMENT
FIND THE
NEXT SITE.
A candidate site becomes useful infrastructure only after permission, terrain review, power planning, installation, and repeatable field testing.
COMPARE TERRAIN
Use the Mountain Path Planner to compare candidate links and identify obvious terrain obstruction before making a site visit.
OPEN PATH PLANNER ↗POWER + ACCESS
Model year-round power, weather exposure, maintenance access, antenna mounting, and permission. A hard-to-service site can become a liability.
FIELD TEST
Temporary testing comes before permanent claims. Record radio, antenna, height, terrain, distance, configuration, and actual result.
LOG TEST ↗HOST SITE
Property owners and site managers can privately volunteer a candidate without publishing a residential address.
HOST A NODE ↗VERIFY
Only reviewed evidence enters the curated network record. Predictions remain predictions; public MQTT observations remain observations.
The planner intentionally avoids generating a fake “best site” score until enough terrain and local field evidence exists to justify one.