Ham Shack/2015.03.11 Meeting Notes

• Meeting Time: March 10, 2015, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Attendees: Jeff, Tim, Bruce, Darryl, Dmitiry, Hunter, John, Jake P., Baxley
• Next Meeting: March 31 2015, 7:00pm - 8:00pm: HAM Radio Meeting

Action Items

Assigned Action Items

• Jeff to schedule the next Ham Radio Meeting (Completed --Omegix (talk) 10:13, 11 March 2015 (CDT))
• Jeff to schedule a stakeholders meeting for the library (Greg), AV Area (Tim) and HAM Shack (Jake)
  • Once results of this meeting are done, Jeff to schedule a re-arrangement and taking measurements day

Unassigned Action Items

• We need Coax to run from the hamshack to the antenna

Notes

• Our first goal is to get our hamshack built and on the air
  • Habitat for humanity may be a good resource for materials
• The Landlord is adamant about not poking new holes in the building
• Just to get up an running, our first antenna can be as simple as a mag-mount slapped on the roof
• Baxley has offered to teach morse code lessons
• Darryl demonstrated his Broadband Hamnet
  • Darryl was running version 2, version 3 can do 900mhz
  • while you can't encrypt anything on broadband ham, you can use public keys for refutation
  • Hope to get text based chat up and running as first use of broadband hamnet
  • Hunter and Strages are setting up a non-HAM meshnet. It may be possible to utilize non-ham infrastructures like non-Ham Meshnet and the internet backbone by encapsulating the ham-mesh packets.
  • Batman is a version of the ham-mesh that is better for moving mesh nodes
• Ligowave (online) can be used to calculate attenuation between two points