Radio Activity Night-July 22nd
What in the world are those crazy Radio Active people up to now? We meet at the regularly scheduled Radio Active (RA) night time and place: Fourth Thursday, 7pm, Red Cross.
We’ve been looking into the possibility of getting some Mesh nodes going in Enid. So far we’ve located and upgraded three routers. Tim actually has some applications working across the routers. Like FTP. (File Transfer Protocol)
We hope to soon have at least one semi permanent site for a mesh node.
- We successfully shot a signal over 5 miles.
- We have started creating some talking point documents to use when requesting access to potential installation sites.
Ham Radio, what a diverse hobby!"
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work ... Thomas Edison
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HSMM-MESH
Dave-KC5SII and Tim-KD5KTB have acquired three linksys wireless routers and configured them with the HSMM firmware. Tim is currently using 2 of them to experiment and learn more about how the system works while Dave looks into some antenna cables/connectors. The network connectivity seems be easy to setup and establish including plugging into an existing internet WAN connection. Our primary focus now is to figure out how to allow separate laptops or workstations on the network to share files completely separate from any internet access. This appears to require some fairly detailed work to open specific ports for specific applications. Once we learn how to properly do this configuration, we should be able to deploy this system and use it to pass digital traffic such as documents, and files.
Eventually we hope to be able to pass pictures and video.
Our next major test is to see how far this system can be used in LOS, line of site.
We must first build some short coax/connections to plug in some antenna's we have and we are also looking at various types of antenna's.
Tim-KD5KTB