[MVMA] The Mesh Discussion Net 2018: Revisit

[Chuck Gelm]

Remember the 'Mesh Discussion Net' ?

  There was much discussion on this mail list on November 26-28, 2018, 
on this list server.

  IMO, Henry (W8HJR) summed the discussion up nicely:

"Chuck,

I think Phil (/KA8ZKR/) and John (/W8LRJ/) hit two relevant points about the Tuesday mesh
discussion net: activity of the net is greatly influenced by the
activity going on with equipment, etc. and the discussions online about
the MVMA and mesh activity have possibly reduced questions for the net.

I went back and looked at Tuesday night mesh net length before the
online discussion intensified in October.  The 42 mesh discussion nets
since the beginning of the year averaged 13 minutes with 6 exceeding 20
minutes. Phil was correct that some went beyond 10 p.m., the longest
lasting 52 minutes. Since the online exchanges became frequent the
longest net was 8 minutes and the average about 5 minutes.

Perhaps this mail list is a better vehicle for discussion. Your message
definitely generated more activity that any recent Tuesday night net. I
think it is an appropriate topic for the committee re-examining the
MVMA. As someone who is not active in mesh I have learned a lot about
mesh from both the Tuesday night net and the mail list exchanges.

Henry, W8HJR"

  IMO, What was lost was the advertising of the existence of an active local
HSMM group to hams.

  On one hand, it would be a good thing to advertise the existence of an
active local HSMM group to the 'general ham community' on more than one
county area net.

  On the other hand, it seems to cause a 'failure to launch HSMM' when folks
using the process 'I am only going to implement a minimum station
that would reach a local generic VHF/UHF repeater'.
e.g. No outdoor antenna above the roof peak.

  How, what, where, when should we advertise?

Chuck

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