[FADCA] Bartow Switch

[Chuck Hast]

On 12/27/05, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH FL <kd4efm at kd4efm.org> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
> To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
> <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] ORL Hamcation, or who else to call
>
>
> On 12/27/05, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH FL <kd4efm at kd4efm.org> wrote:
> > Chuck, any chance you could bring the BARTOW NODE with you???
> >
>
> I can, I was going to put Linux on it and that way it will be upgraded.
> I do not have a call nor a address for it (use the area code and the
> local CO it is found it)
>
> * I was hoping for 863534 (which is Bartow's PSTN Exchange)
> The call would be under: WC4PEM
Good info...


> The TNC in mind would be the KPC-3+ (with the upgraded mem)
>
Oopps, I do not have one. But Bud & Co. are using them. If you can get
it to me that will give me a chance to play with it too. That way we can
make sure it is all working right.

> How many ports is it going to have? Also what TNC's are you planning
> on putting on it? I do not recall that it has a NIC card in it, if it
> did I would
> put it on the 'net and let Charlie do his magic so it will be standard with
> the rest. Indeed that is probably what I will do here is just get the CD on
> it and let him get the info from you and get it ready. I am so busy with
> the new job that I may not get it as well as he will. (besides he indicated
> he is having fun at it too)
>
> *I will have to see if I have a spare NIC, but I don't thing I do (mother
> nature of course)
> but go ahead and put one in it and let Charlie bang it up.

Let see what I have around here.
>
> * As far as ports go, LAN was going to work with 144.960 <?> have to look at
> past emails,
> and the UHF one would be and OMNI so it can work Desoto, Tpa, and orl /
> clearmont. (KPC-3+ also)
>
You should think about a dedicated link to TPA and dedicated links out to
each of your other sites. If we put all on a single freq we will be back to the
good old days and we DO NOT want to go there again. That is the present
problem with trying to run a link down to SRQ and over to Arcadia, we can
hear them in Tampa, but there are stations over the horizon that Tampa can
not hear and so we get hidden terminal something bad. If you have to stack
devices on a channel I think that it is probably best to try to Tampa on a
separate link, and if Arcadia will put on a separate radio then we can do a
triad, since we can hear Arcadia there would not be HTS if it was just BOW
TPA  and Arcadia. Then a second radio would probably handle Clermont
and ORL. After that if we see a heavy traffic trend on any of them we can
look at point to point.

>
> Give us that data and we should have you a box cooked. We will need
> TNC's so that it can talk to them.
>
> * I will see if there is a way to get one to you, but there might be a slim
> chance, but if you have a kpc-3PLUS, that's what would be used.

No, would like to because there is a lot of questions about them, but do
not have one.

>
> ** NO RUSH ON THIS AT THIS TIME, just trying to get things preped
> for installation when the new tower is completed in Bartow.
>

I really would like to get it done so you can get it set up. Once we have
the software on it, really if you can put it somewhere on the net Charlie
can get in and do what needs to be done, you just need to be able to
check the LED's on the TNC and do any local labor needed, he does
most of it remotely.


--
Chuck Hast
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."