BAM Weekly Working Group Aug 29th, 2022

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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
  • Backbones
    • Discussions of various backbone sites recently visited and/or updated
    • Discussion of collaboration with Matthew Kaufman's network (on-going)
    • 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