April 2018 - PSDR - mailman.hamwan.org

Source for Dynadish (international version)?
by Doug Kingston 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Streakwave does not have them in stock and gave an estimate of O(months) to get them. I am looking for 3 for our Voting System deployment. I can't tell if this is the right unit (I think it is since they also list the explicit US version elsewhere). What is OSL3? http://flyteccomputers.com/product/21307/Mikrotik-DynaDish-5-5Ghz-PTP-wifi-… Any other known good (and stocked) sources? -Doug-

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New Mikrotik Vulnerability
by Nigel Vander Houwen 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Hello All, We’ve become aware of a new vulnerability on the Mikrotik devices that could allow an attacker to grab passwords off of the devices. We believe at this point that we are insulated from this attack as we block WinBox access at our edges, however we would highly recommend that you upgrade your devices as soon as possible to be sure. More information about this vulnerability, as well as what versions are impacted, and what the patched version numbers are, are available from Mikrotik here: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=133533 <https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=133533> Thanks, Nigel

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VOTE: Board of Director Elections - Rob Salsgiver / NR3O
by Rob Salsgiver 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Greetings all, I've been a financial backer of HamWAN since fairly early-on if not the beginning, and have supported things mostly in the background with a few client installs in the North Puget Sound as time allowed. (Providence Hospital Everett, Evergreen Hospital Monroe, Bakerview apartments / SCHC Repeater site, etc). The last 9 years I've been working multiple roles through the growth of a local start-up that I've finally finished with. Before that I was 20+ years in various roles within "old school" IT ranging from PCs, Network/Sysadmin, database, security, project management, web design, etc. I recently volunteered to join the NetOps crew to get up to speed on the design and management aspects of HamWAN, having done enough with the client configs to be comfortable. Bart, Nigel, Tom, and others have carried the load for a few years now and their available time seems to be getting less while I'm at a point in life where I can take some on. I see myself joining the board for the first year to get familiar with how things currently are running to better help transition and/or keep things going down the road should the existing guys (heaven forbid) want to take a break and spend more time with family/etc. I am currently looking at an expansion / re-tool of SnoDEM to MIMO and back to looking at getting Everett Clinic online, which has been idle due to lack of time with prior job (no longer an issue). At this stage I am more interested in documentation/processes/procedures to capture what already exists BEFORE all of our founders win the lottery and tell us "adios". It is on this basis that I ask your consideration as a potential director for HamWAN. Cheers, Rob Salsgiver - NR3O

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Gold-S1 back on the air
by Bart Kus 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

There was an expedition to Gold Mtn earlier today to fix our power distribution there. Now that our ability to power cycle devices remotely has been restored, the Sector 1 modem @ Gold has been brought back online from its long winter slumber. For any folks who are currently riding the northern signal fringe of Gold-S2, you may want to switch to 5.92GHz and try Gold-S1. Please do report how it goes! --Bart

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Equipment arrival is eminent
by Ron Zuber 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Hello, I'm new to HamWAN. My equipment is arriving this week. Ian will be helping me program and align my dish. Where do I send money? I understand the suggested donation is $20 per month? Ron Zuber N4RDZ WQTA-849 Seattle, WA 206-423-0602

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] PSDR Digest, Vol 62, Issue 2
by NA NA 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Here is my vote: Nigel: Yay Doug: Yay Cory: Yay Bart: Yay Thanks Terence (KE7SFF) Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: PSDR <psdr-bounces(a)hamwan.org> on behalf of psdr-request(a)hamwan.org <psdr-request(a)hamwan.org> Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 7:00 PM To: psdr(a)hamwan.org Subject: PSDR Digest, Vol 62, Issue 2 Send PSDR mailing list submissions to psdr(a)hamwan.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.hamwa… or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to psdr-request(a)hamwan.org You can reach the person managing the list at psdr-owner(a)hamwan.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PSDR digest..." Today's Topics: 1. VOTE: Board Director Elections - Bart Kus (Bart Kus) 2. Re: VOTE: Board Director Elections - Bart Kus (Kenny Richards) 3. Voting (Rob Salsgiver) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 21:04:53 -0700 From: Bart Kus <me(a)bartk.us> To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr(a)hamwan.org> Subject: [HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Director Elections - Bart Kus Message-ID: <201ad4ea-2936-4656-7b94-adcbc4ebdb76(a)bartk.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello, I'm finding myself stretched far thinner than in years past with work commitments and a couple new businesses I picked up, as well as tending to the needs of a quickly growing 3 year old, but I still think I can provide valuable strategic and technical insight to steer HamWAN in the right directions. Therefore, I'd like to announce my candidacy to continue serving on the HamWAN board. Here are my votes for the other other folks who have run this past week: Nigel: Yay Doug: Yay Cory: Yay --Bart ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 21:09:58 -0700 From: Kenny Richards <richark(a)gmail.com> To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr(a)hamwan.org> Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Director Elections - Bart Kus Message-ID: <CAHEUKbJR8v9UvKS9A7+ZFSLAdcr3-4eO39KoemsWG5yrJFzk+g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I vote Yay for Bart. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Bart Kus <me(a)bartk.us> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm finding myself stretched far thinner than in years past with work > commitments and a couple new businesses I picked up, as well as tending to > the needs of a quickly growing 3 year old, but I still think I can provide > valuable strategic and technical insight to steer HamWAN in the right > directions. Therefore, I'd like to announce my candidacy to continue > serving on the HamWAN board. > > Here are my votes for the other other folks who have run this past week: > > Nigel: Yay > Doug: Yay > Cory: Yay > > --Bart > > _______________________________________________ > PSDR mailing list > PSDR(a)hamwan.org > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.hamwa… >

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Voting
by Rob Salsgiver 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

I'll throw in a Yay for the following: Bart Nigel Doug Cory Cheers, Rob Salsgiver

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VOTE: Board Director Elections - Bart Kus
by Bart Kus 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Hello, I'm finding myself stretched far thinner than in years past with work commitments and a couple new businesses I picked up, as well as tending to the needs of a quickly growing 3 year old, but I still think I can provide valuable strategic and technical insight to steer HamWAN in the right directions. Therefore, I'd like to announce my candidacy to continue serving on the HamWAN board. Here are my votes for the other other folks who have run this past week: Nigel: Yay Doug: Yay Cory: Yay --Bart

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Beacon Tower-Capital Park Backbone Link
by Randy Neals 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Hi, I was digging through the HamWAN Map and Monitoring site to better understand the connectivity and redundancy of the backbone supporting the two key Seattle HamWAN sites, Beacon Tower and Capital Park. To recap what I observed... Documentation suggests *backbone connectivity at Capital Park* is: a. PtP link to Baldi b. PtP link to Paine The Capital Park to Baldi PtP actually appears to be a Point-to-Multipoint Link with 2 clients registered on the Baldi radio. I suspect that is Capital Park and Beacon Tower sharing access to a single dish/radio at Baldi. The Capital Park to Paine PtP seems to be decommissioned. *Question:* Am I correct in believing that Capital Park is single-threaded with just one backbone connection to Baldi operational? *Suggestion:* I think it might be prudent to have a direct PtP link between Capital Park and Beacon Tower. The sites are 4km apart with good visual line of sight. These two sites are very important to Seattle users. *Proposal:* 24 GHz is both an Amateur Radio band, and an ISM unlicensed band. This band works very well on short point to point paths. Further, 24.05 to 24.25 is an ISM band and can carry commercial traffic or amateur traffic. 24 GHz could be utilized on the Beacon Tower to Seattle EOC link. This link is very short (1.1 Miles/1.7 Km) and is a really good use case for 24 GHz. Equipment for 24Ghz is not particularly expensive. Mimosa announced a new B24 model on March 6 that has a $729 per end cost for integrated dish/radio. https://mimosa.co/products/specs/b24 Using 24 GHz to the EOC would allow the repurposing of the 5GHz link intended as Beacon-EOC to be a new backbone path Beacon Tower to Capital Park. I believe there is ample room at Capital Park to add a 2' dish pointing at Beacon. This path is about 4km and would not be suitable for 24 Ghz. The outcome of this proposal would be: 1. Seattle EOC-Beacon being linked at very high speed over 24 GHz. (circa 1 Gb/s) 2. Beacon Tower-Capital Park also having a high speed 5GHz backbone (circa 100 Mb/s) These key sites in Seattle would be less reliant on Gold, Baldi, and Haystack for connectivity within the City of Seattle/across town. There is an obvious cost implication for this change, but it's not particularly large and could make the network more robust. I'd be willing to contribute to this and others may also also do the same. Thanks for reading this and considering it. Randy W3RWN

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