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= Notes =
 
= Notes =
 
* Our first goal is to get our hamshack built and on the air
 
* Our first goal is to get our hamshack built and on the air
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** Habitat for humanity may be a good resource for materials
 
* The Landlord is adamant about not poking new holes in the building
 
* 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
 
* 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
 
* Baxley has offered to teach morse code lessons
 
* Darryl demonstrated his Broadband Hamnet
 
* Darryl demonstrated his Broadband Hamnet
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** Darryl was running version 2, version 3 can do 900mhz
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** while you can't encrypt anything on broadband ham, you can use public keys for refutation
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** Hope to get text based chat up and running as first use of broadband hamnet
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** 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.
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** Batman is a version of the ham-mesh that is better for moving mesh nodes
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* Ligowave (online) can be used to calculate attenuation between two points

Revision as of 10:08, 11 March 2015

  • 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: TBD (March 31st?)

Action Items

Assigned Action Items

  • Jeff to schedule the next Ham Radio Meeting
  • 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