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

Getting Started

• 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

Help

• Antennas - Recommended antennas (for when the radio doesn't come with one)
• Band Plan - How the spectrum is allocated in various areas of the Bay
• Bandwidth Consumption - Bandwidth consumption of various classes of applications
• Batteries - Recommended batteries for off-grid and battery backed-up nodes
• Cables - Recommendation for cabling to use, especially outside
• Cameras - Recommended cameras
• Commercial WISPs - Local commercial WISPs which often share locations
• Company sites - Businesses hosting nodes and extending the network
• High sites - Elevated sites which are easy to point a radio at
• Maps - Various maps of mesh nodes and the connections between them
• Network Time Protocol - Using and provide network time on the mesh
• Phones & PBX - Phone and phone systems for the mesh
• Power-over-Ethernet - Options for providing power to nodes via ethernet
• Proxmox - Deploying AREDN on Proxmox
• Radios - Which radio should I buy?
• Solar - Solar powered nodes
• Winlink - General and specific help info.

Projects

• Bay Area Backbone
• Supernodes

Past Projects

• Link Quality Management
• Network Storms
• S11 / S22 sweeps on 5ghz antennas RAW data
• 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
• Hamvention - The world's largest Amateur Radio Convention

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
• South County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (SCARES)
• Southern California Mesh
• MDARC Mesh Network
• Willamette Valley Mesh
• Rhode Island Emergency Mesh Network
• Maine Ham Radio Mesh Network
• Oklahoma City Mesh

Other Networks

• East Bay Public Safety Microwave Network (formally the Lafayette Police Department)
• Sierra-Lassen-Plumas Interoperability Network (SLPnet)

AREDN

• Main AREDN website
• AREDN Documentation
• AREDN GitHub