Friday, January 15, 2016

HamLAN


Ham radio enabled (more than that - created?  what's the word?) Local Area Network.

A play off the Hamwan folks..

Focus is RF (no direct internet operation - some limited Internet Resource Gateways)

Log in with Captive portal

Messaging via 'groups' even for individuals.

Slowest and resource discovery via APRS 1200 baud.

Others supported:
  regular packet
  soundcard faster packet
  5.9 GHz wifi
  channel -2 wifi
  Ricochet

Use 'real' WIFI for Access and some inter-node content sharing

It's not a success until you're fired.


List the ranges of participation...

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Ham Projects 2016



  1. Mobile Data Station
    1. Not new but time to take some ideas from the inbox and make it happen.
      1. Two, or three, portable.  Probably in Home Depot orange boxes.   Two stations is a link, three is a network.
      2. Frequencies
        1. Two meters at 1200 baud
        2. UHF at 9600 baud
        3. Standard WiFi AP
        4. (maybe) long distance Wifi
        5. Portable HamWan node - 5.9 GHz radio
        6. Ricochet Metricom 900 MHz FHSS
      3. Computer ?   (12V, no moving parts, Openwrt?)
      4. Software
        1. WiFi captive portal.  Community groupware
        2. Ham APRS and messages.
        3. Ham TCP/IP - 
      5. Goals
        1. Access home from the mobile via various modes in the Puget Sound region.
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