Bay Area Mesh
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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
- Radios - Which radio should I buy?
- Tools - Helpful information and tools
- Videos - Helpful videos
Resources
- 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
- Bay Area Backbone - high performance, internet capable, microwave network
- 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
- Email - Internal mesh email
- High sites - Elevated sites which are easy to point a radio at
- Maps - Various maps of mesh nodes and the connections between them
- Marketing - Marketing materials
- MeshChat - A chat program design just for AREDN
- Network Time Protocol - Using and provide network time on the mesh
- Phones & PBX - Phone and phone systems for the mesh
- Bay Area Mesh Phone Exchange - Local Phone exchange for SF Bay Area.
- 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
- Services - I'm on the mesh .. what next?
- Supernodes - Linking AREDN meshes across the world
- Tower Climbing - Information about tower climbing
- Winlink - General and specific help info.
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
Working Groups
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)
- WB6ECE Repeater Group
Historic Networks
AREDN
Non-Profit
The Bay Area Mesh is made possible in part by the Bay Area Mesh Inc 501(c)(3) non-profit.