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July 2013

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Need a truck/cargo van + bodies for Baldi deploy work this Saturday
by Bart Kus 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hello, We're on visit #4 to Baldi and trying to wrap this deployment up. It's been a challenging site to deal with due to lack of mounting points and strict deployment standards / severe winter weather conditions. We'll be meeting @ Enumclaw McDonalds @ 9:45AM this coming Saturday. If you have a truck or a van that can carry cargo up a rocky road, and are willing to spend your day helping deploy the site, please let me know ASAP. You will not need to climb, there is plenty of work for ground crew folks. Thanks! --Bart

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Alpha testers needed for HamWAN sites
by Bart Kus 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hello, We've been super busy with getting physical hardware up and on the air, so we could use some help in terms of end-user testing of these sites. One project member recently did a really great test <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8174/2013-07-28%2014.04.10.jpg> of the Everett site from a northern Camano Island location. He got signal strengths suggesting full-speed service was available that far out, near Stanwood, about 21 miles away from the Everett site. We did not have time to do more detailed testing. I'd like to get more data points like this collected, and I'd like people to start being connected 24/7 so that we may measure reliability and such. If you are "near" Everett (if you can call 21 miles away near!), or near Capitol Hill, then there is a site for you to test! Hopefully after this weekend, if you're near Enumclaw all the way out to Tacoma, there'll be a site you can try connecting to. The Sites wiki page <https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Sites&structure=HamWAN> has been updated with the coverage maps of each sector antenna at each site. That's the best way to figure out if you're covered, so check it out! We don't have the plug-n-play solutions ready to go yet, so you'll need to get help from others who are on the network already to configure your modem. IRC channel #HamWAN on the irc.freenode.org network has been a good place for this kind of support. You can also use the psdr(a)hamwan.org mailing list (email psdr-join(a)hamwan.org to join). BIG FAT DISCLAIMER: The network stack is nowhere near final config, so as alpha testers, you will not be experiencing the network as it is intended. There are plans to make the cyberspace stuff run much more smoothly, but we're focusing nearly 100% of our time on hardware deployment this summer. --Bart PS: Please be respectful with the replies, as I've cross-posted this to 3 lists. Don't spam all 3 lists with discussion. Pick one list to reply to and stick with it. Thank you! :)

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