[CALV-ARES] AARC HSMM-Mesh Presentation

Tue Mar 11 18:25:59 EDT 2014

Great, still need to find some inexpensive sources for routers.

Regards,

Jim Tetlow

From: calv-ares-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:calv-ares-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob Sheskin
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 17:22
To: Calvert County, MD ARES
Subject: Re: [CALV-ARES] AARC HSMM-Mesh Presentation

Keith KB3TCB is going to come to CARA meeting May 1. Karl has a couple of
extra club routers, hopefully they will be available to play.

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73,

Bob N3PPH

On Mar 11, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Jim Tetlow <k3uga at comcast.net
<mailto:k3uga at comcast.net> > wrote:

Good deal Karl,

          Going to see the presentation at Anne Arundel meeting. 

No nodes here, need to find new source for routers; eBay sellers have caught
on and prices for best version models are as high as when they were new!
Still want to see, maybe I could build antennas so Routers would be more
affordable (have some comcast dishes and tin cans! Haha). 

May be able to talk at ARES meeting. Line of sight is pretty limited in most
of Calvert, unless antenna very high.

Sent from my iPad, 73,

Jim Tetlow

k3uga at comcast.net <mailto:k3uga at comcast.net> 

On Mar 10, 2014, at 12:43, Karl Long <karl_g_long at hotmail.com
<mailto:karl_g_long at hotmail.com> > wrote:

Thanks, Jim.

I went to the MARC meeting in Rockville last week. I am glad I did. It was
the first time my mesh nodes had ever met any other nodes, and the joined
right in.  All I had to do was turn them on.  As advertised, they
automatically connected to all the other nodes there (except for Jesse's,
I'll explain later).

I heartily recommend that anyone interested in broadband (private internet)
networking, see Keith's (KB3TCB) presentation.  It will probably be the same
one he presented in Rockville, updated with feedback from that meeting.

If you have a node already set up, by all means take it to the meeting so it
can join in the network.  If you have a node that is not yet configured, fix
that and take your node as well. (If you need help, ask me)  Take external
antennas if you have any, even if you cannot yet connect to your node (don't
have feed line). 

I am planning to go to the AARC meeting.  I will bring two (or three) nodes,
an access point (bring your laptop or mobile device to connect to the mesh
wirelessly), a web server and several antennas I have built over the years.

I promised to explain about Jesse (WB2IFS). His non-standard nodes did not
automatically connect to all the others. 

Jesse lives in Clinton, MD, and has been doing the HSMM-Mesh for quite
awhile.  He knows quite a bit about it. His nodes did not mesh with ours
because he had configured his differently, since the meshers in PGARC were
experimenting with a different setup.  After we figured out what was wrong,
as quick fix made it work.  As a result of that situation, I expect that
they will reconsider that configuration.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about hsmm over ham radio for
everyone, and a chance for all of us with hsmm nodes to play mesh with
others.

Karl, KG1L
karl_g_long at hotmail.com <mailto:karl_g_long at hotmail.com> 

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From: k3uga at comcast.net <mailto:k3uga at comcast.net> 
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:39:22 -0500
To: calv-ares at mailman.qth.net <mailto:calv-ares at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: [CALV-ARES] Fwd: AARC new content notification for jimtetlow

Read the following:

MESH NETS topics.

The AARC meeting in two weeks may be of interest to those thinking of
Broadband-Hamnet (formerly known as HSMM-MESH) as Karl was talking about.
This is closer than going to Rockville if you have some interest. Meeting is
March 20 @ 19:30 local. See below for full description and contacts. 

Sent from my iPad,

Jim Tetlow

Begin forwarded message [removed irrelevant parts]:

1. Events and activities at the AARC:
Published Blog entry by W2PAW
[ http://www.w3vpr.org/node/1421 ]

Newcomers are always welcome!

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Our next meeting on March 20 will have a presentation on mesh networks by
Keith (KB3TCB)
*Broadband-HamnetT* (formerly known as HSMM-MeshT) is a high speed, self
discovering, self configuring, fault tolerant, wireless computer network.
Its
primary focus is on emergency communications. Equipment to built the network
is off-the-shelf, low-cost, commodity wireless routers which have been
re-flashed with new firmware. When a number of these boxes are turned on,
they automatically form a network much like (but separate from) the larger
internet. When this happens, any normal internet data can be passed between
the nodes, such as web cameras, VoIP and text messaging.

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*Club Meetings* are held on the first and third Thursdays of the month from
7:30 to 9PM at the clubhouse located at the Davidsonville Family Recreation
Center in Davidsonville, MD
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