HamWAN in Portland Oregon
Hello, I am the president of the Hoodview Amateur Radio Club (HARC) in Gresham, Oregon. Our club is looking at leading an effort to setup HamWAN in this area. I would like to get more information about the technology and certification process. Scott, N7DOD http://www.wb7qiw.org
I am the president of the Hoodview Amateur Radio Club (HARC) in Gresham, Oregon. Our club is looking at leading an effort to setup HamWAN in this area. I would like to get more information about the technology and certification process. N7DOD
FYI. Here's some other activity in your area that's similar and complementary to HamWAN (that should light up IRC)...
We're doing HSMM mesh things here in Oregon! I held a meeting last month to see if there would be any interest in the local county and ended up overfilling the room with representation from the whole region (3 or 4 counties).
If you know anyone here in the Portland area that is interested, please feel free to share the link: http://washcoares.org/?page_id=1227
Chris Arnesen, KU7PDX
73 Bill, WA7NWP
Hello Scott, In short, certification and using the HamWAN name revolve around being compatible from a client perspective. The same channel plan, and the same protocols means that a client from any HamWAN compatible network can travel to any other, and should expect it to work without having to reconfigure. How the rest of the network is constructed isn’t required to be the same, and can be done however makes sense for your uses. We’re on chat a lot in the #hamwan channel on freenode. http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=HamWAN..&channels=%23HamWAN <http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=HamWAN..&channels=#HamWAN> If you have more specific questions about aspects, or chat in general, I’d encourage you to join us there, and we’d be happy to chat with you. Nigel
On Apr 30, 2016, at 17:22, Scott J. Burrows <sburrows97211@comcast.net> wrote:
Hello,
I am the president of the Hoodview Amateur Radio Club (HARC) in Gresham, Oregon. Our club is looking at leading an effort to setup HamWAN in this area. I would like to get more information about the technology and certification process.
Scott, N7DOD http://www.wb7qiw.org <http://www.wb7qiw.org/>_______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr
Scott: The Cascade Amateur Radio Society (CARS); Washington Co. ARES; and Clackamas Co. ARES are working on installing our first HamWAN Node at the KGON Stone Henge Tower in Portland by OHSU. We have worked out the Site costs to a very reasonable level and have much of the equipment purchased. The down side of this site is that we have to use a certified Tower Climber to do our installation. We almost have the $$ for that. Once we do, we will be installing 1. A Distribution Node-- with three 120 degree Sector Antennas; 2. A Backbone Node with Beams to Salem, Mt. Scott, North, and probably to Clackamas County. We are operating as a Committee of CARS-- The Oregon HamWAN SIG. This makes donations usually tax deductible through CARS's 501c3 status. CARS keeps separate sub-ledgers for the SIG. I look forward to working jointly with your group to bring HamWAN to the Portland area. Our goal is to get a site up and running so Hams will be able to try it out and see something tangible. Then we will work on building it out as needed. The Backbone is planned to eventually connect with the Puget Sound Group near Baw Faw, Washington and bring it down to Albany/Dallas, Oregon. That will help them and us. But, first we just need to get it up and running. I'd like to discuss HARC's plans. It probably makes sense to join both of our groups efforts. Whatever gets it going.If fact, joining with the various local MESH groups also, might be the way to build a "Critical Mass" quicker. Ken TolliverK7ICYK7ICY@ARRL.net
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