BAM Weekly Working Group May 8th, 2023

Attendees

• Dave Dornlas
• John Swallow
• Jim Moss
• Tim Wilkinson
• Mathison Ott
• Scott Nacey
• Chris Adams

Notes by

• Tim Wilkinson

Major Discussions Topics

• AREDN nodes on Vaca
  • Mathison has been working to get some node and connections to the mesh up on Vaca.
  • Coordination has been difficult as the people involved are difficult to contact.
• General radio installs
  • John has been working the room (in a way) and is getting more and more people interested and setup with nodes.
• San Bruno Mountain
  • A work party is planned for Saturday. Non-AREDN related stuff, but having people show up to help goes a long way to making friends.
• South Bay
  • Scott has setup a groups.io mailing list to coordinate people interested in AREDN in the south bay.
  • Thinking of trying to establish an island, and then working out how to connect to the mesh over radio in the medium term.
• College of San Mateo
  • John and Dave a looking to revisit connections here as there's the potential for a string of nodes are various related locations.
• ORCA
  • Chris has been doing a bunch of non-AREDN work at ORCA.
  • Still wants help getting the camera there working.
• Equipment
  • John needs some equipment for new hams.
  • John may also have access to a huge LifePo4 battery system that's being junked.