Bay Area Mesh

Goals

• Education, Research & Mentorship of the Amateur Radio Community on digital network technologies.
• Rapid ad-hoc communication deployments during disasters and emergencies.
• Reliable, fault-tolerant networks that served agencies can protect Bay Area residents and save lives during disaster situations

General Information

• AREDN Beginners Guide
• Code of Conduct
• Maps - Various maps of mesh nodes and the connections between them
• Tools - Helpful information and tools
• Videos - Helpful videos
• High sites - Elevated sites which are easy to point a radio at
• Commercial WISPs - Local commercial WISPs which often share locations

Help

• Band Plan
• Bandwidth Consumption
• Batteries
• Cables
• Cameras
• Network Time Protocol
• Phones & PBX
• Power-over-Ethernet
• Solar

Projects

• Bay Area Backbone
• Lafayette Police Department / Lamorinda Network
• Sierra-Lassen-Plumas Interoperability Network (SLPnet)
• South County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (SCARES)

Past Projects

• Link Quality Management
• Network Storms
• S11 / S22 sweeps on 5ghz antennas RAW data
• Air Quality
• Radiation monitoring
• SFWEM GitHub
• Alameda Emergency Services (OES)
• Red Cross

Conferences

• Pacificon - Annual pacific coast HAM conference by MDARC
• SCALE - Southern California Linux Conference (with a HAM presence)
• BayCon - Annual meeting of the BayNet Amateur Radio Club in the San Francisco Bay Area

Communications

• Slack
• sfwem@groups.io
• Monthly Updates

Working Groups

• BAM Weekly Working Group

Non-Profit

• Main website
• IRS
• Meetings
• Grants
• Board
• Documents
• Marketing

Other Meshes

• North Bay Mesh
• Southern California Mesh
• MDARC Mesh Network

AREDN

• Main AREDN website
• AREDN Documentation
• AREDN GitHub