[FADCA] Need Switch Info Updated befor Tampa Hamfest - Please help

[bud thompson]

Deltona
Tuesday Dec 2 0725E

Russ wrote:

> Please! Update the FADCA on line data. It is all well and good to create
> more an more different ways to update the information about devices listed
> by FADCA but if you don't update the data by going into the sites designed
> to feed the changes to me the FADCA database won't get up dated and can
> not be kept current.
>
> I will update the database as I receive updates through the coordination
> pages. I can't be using several different sets of data to do this, and,
> frankly, won't.
>
> If someone else wants to maintain the database and do the frequency
> coordination now is the time to set forward.


Thanks Russ - We must not lose track of managing the forest while grooming
the trees!

For those who may have  only recently joined this e-mail group-

The purpose for the interactive map is to help neophytes get started with
their first network connection.  If they have to wade through the forest to
find the right tree it is daunting.  I can't find any relationship between
listings on the coordinated list of devices, including  network switches,
and network node addresses, so even if the relationship is lurking there,
I doubt someone unfamiliar with packet and networking could find it.

The main FADCA mission is to coordinate frequencies/devices to minimize
mutual interference, much the same as the Florida Repeater Council (FRC).
Over the past six years those FADCA folks more active in networking
have promoted local ham radio communities (LANS/ARES, etc.) to utilize the
Florida Layered Packet Network for intrastate connectivity. This  has
resulted in what now appears to be two separate FADCA data bases:

1. All devices needing to be coordinated
2. Switches/Nodes/LANs/BBSs on the Florida Layered Network

Switch managers need to keep both data sets up to date.  Presently there is
no direct automatic link between the two data bases.

Maybe some day much of that can be automated.  However that may be as much a
dream as someone relieving Russ and Free of managing the FADCA
coordination data base - a major task and labor for the Cause.

Thanks to Russ and Free for all the work on the coordination database  and
the web site.

bud