The Albemarle, Charlottesville, UVA Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) group held a practice session on using 5.8 GHz mesh at Albemarle Square Shopping Center on Saturday October 19, 2019.

Participants in the exercise were K4DND, N4PGS, KE4LWT, WD3O, KN4LYF and KK4JP and they set of a variety of directional and omnidirectional models of radio from MikroTik and Ubiquiti Networks that had been upgraded with AREDN (Amateur Radio Emergency Digital Network) firmware to operate on ham frequencies.