BAM Weekly Working Group June 6th, 2022

Attendees

• Mathison Ott
• Isaac Bentley
• Dave Dornlas
• Tim Wilkinson
• John Swallow

Notes by

• Tim Wilkinson

Major Discussions Topics

• Equipment
  • Transferred stash from Greg to Isaac’s
  • Updated inventory pending
• Pacificon 2022
  • What talks to have at the conference?
    • Happy to give a talk about everything that's changed in the latest AREDN release
  • Will we have a table?
    • Goal of table?
      • General presence - not being there makes people wonder why you didnt come this year
      • Find people to goto and help them setup nodes
        • Towers
        • Individual HAMs
    • Not give out free hardware as not enough return for cost
• High site access
  • SF VA
  • Other sites mentioned (I forget their names)
    • Is there a list of high-sites we use together with contact and other information?
• Backbone construction
  • Marin connection to Rob? Where from?
  • 60GHz across Bay connection not yet functional
    • Not clear what needs to be done to complete this
  • 3GHz links to other site (I forget the sites involved)
  • Is there an actual plan for the backbone?
    • Which sites does it link and how?
    • How do non-backbone sites connect?
    • What parts exist? What parts need to be put in place
    • All high sites accessible?
    • What is impeding progress?
• Band Plan management
  • Goal here appear to be to manage the WiFi spectrum in a similar way to how repeater spectrum is managed
    • Who is responsible for “holding” the band plan?
      • We don't want to, but not clear why anyone else would
    • Someone needs to explain a mesh band plan to me. I get the concept but the implementation seems very different from how a repeater band plan would need to operate due to the highly directional nature some links could have.