BAM Weekly Working Group Aug 29th, 2022

Attendees

• Dave Dornlas
• Jim Moss
• Mathison Ott
• John Swallow
• Tim Wilkinson

Notes by

• Tim Wilkinson

Major Discussions Topics

• Pacificon 2022
  • Booth is at a different spot from last year. People seemed less enthused about this spot.
  • Last year we had a couple of sectors outside and a camera an ran a connection to a node inside. We had a large map of the current network, posters, and a flyer to hand out We also gave away about 40+ NSM5s which we will never do again
  • Need a Google doc for signups to man the table Saturday and Sunday
  • We decided Isaac was responsible for everything
  • Dave proposes getting the node map from last year and putting it up with a new node map so we have a good visual representation of how the mesh is growing
  • We might want to get some free-standing easel so we can put up posters not just at the table
• East Bay Area Section Meeting
  • Organization - http://www.arrleb.org
  • Happened last Friday (26th Aug, 2022)
• Backbones
  • Discussions of various backbone sites recently visited and/or updated
    • Discussion of collaboration with Matthew Kaufman's network (on-going)
    • CCCC is willing to host many more dishes as part of the backbone project
  • Some discussion about how to solve some of the problems of building such a beast
    • Seattle network flagged as providing useful feedback on what they did (contact: Randy Neals VE3RWN, referred by Jim)
• Microwaves in general
  • Jim discussed his record breaking long-distance microwave links
  • Some talk regarding SNR improvement for various links