BAM Weekly Working Group March 20th, 2023

SCaLE
- AREDN and BAM at Scale went well last weekend. We handed out all our leaflets and credit cards. Spoke to lots of people who were interested in getting involved.
- Won the Best Presentation prize, for the best show floor presentation
John Cornell
- Emails exchange with the elusive John Cornell to connect his his Lamorinda network to BAM without a tunnel via the new hAP at Fish Ranch. John already has a radio link into Fish Ranch.
Site Updates
- ORCA Update
  - Chris provided an update on the ORCA work. New antenna support was installed, together with a new sector antenna and backbone dish.
  - Camera was installed but is not yet operational.
- San Bruno Mtn
  - PG&E power was out for a while at the site, and equipment did not restart when power was restored.
  - Tim visited on Saturday to fix this (looked like a thrown breaker).
- San Carlos
  - San Carlos to Sunol Ridge link has been down. Theory was that the dish at San Carlos had moved
  - Dish had moved (confirmed by John later the same day).
- Fire Station 8
  - Discussions with Bob I, owner of Fire Station 8 nodes, over the weekend and we now have them upgraded to the latest release + LQM.
NSM5 replacements
- Dave is chasing a good AC replacement for the venerable NSM5
- LiteAP 5AC is one option, but not yet supported
- Tim will look at adding support
Backbone monitoring
- Mathison notes the monitoring is too frequent and causing issue.
- Tim will back it off so it's less frequent.

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