June 2021 - PSDR - mailman.hamwan.org

HamWAN Board Director Elections
by Nigel Vander Houwen 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

Hello Everyone, It is once again time for our annual elections for the HamWAN Board of Directors. Here’s a quick recap of the main points for those that need a refresher. Board member positions last for one year. Any Supporting Member is eligible to vote for board members. Any Supporting Member is eligigle to run for a position on the board. There is no limit on the number of board members. If you feel you would be valuable, you’re not taking a seat away from someone else. There is a minimum of 3 board members required by the constitution. Each board member is a separate election. IE you don’t have to choose only one person to vote for, you choose Yea or Nay for all individuals. Please respond to the list here with your votes. This serves as our public record. We do not have a concept of nominations. The individual themselves must express intent to run for a board position. In the above, we make use of the term Supporting Member, this is a specifically defined criteria in the constitution, which are individuals who have contributed at the Basic Level ($20/mo or more) for at least the last 6 months. Both the time and financial criteria must be met to count. There have been a couple instances of employer matching or other donations this year that we weren’t able to attribute a source to, so if you feel that you’ve been missed in this list, I apologize. Please reach out and we’ll get it sorted. The current list of Supporting Members is: Bart Kus Bob Edmiston Burt Guillot Carl Leon Casey R Hickerson Chuck Dorsett Cory Johnson Dana Hanford David Giuliani David Yost Doug Kingston Dylan Ambauen Edward Cukierman Ian Gallagher John C Miller Kenneth Koster Kenneth Richards Marc Lacy Nick Austin Nigel Vander Houwen Robert Salsgiver Robert Sampson Ronald Zuber Ryan Turner Terence Chan Tim Osburn Tom Hayward Warren Churchward West Seattle ARC I would like to thank everyone, Supporting Members and not, for your contributions to the project. 2020 was a challenging year for everyone, and HamWAN was able to keep going, and make some amount of safe progress. Likewise so far in 2021 we’ve faced some challenges at some of our sites, but thanks to a bunch of work by folks both inside and outside the HamWAN org directly, we’re happy to be moving forward, with some potential growth into new sites we could look forward to. As is my usual procedure, I try to ask the existing board members if they’d like to continue to serve if elected, and lump us together to minimize email threads. Unfortunately due to timing I wasn’t able to confirm everyone ahead of time. I was able to confirm Cory, and will include him in my thread. I would very much encourage Tom, Bart, Rob, and Doug to continue, and want to thank all of my fellow board members for their efforts in support of HamWAN over the last year. For anyone else who wishes to run for the board, please send an email here to the mailing list announcing your intention to run. The voting period on your election will end 7 days after your announcement. Duties are not time intensive, and mostly consist of being available for occasional votes to approve expenses or discuss larger organizational decisions. It is encouraged to write a small blurb about yourself and what you would like HamWAN to do, and what you bring to the table, so that folks who aren’t immediately familiar with your name can have an idea on who they’re voting for. Thank you all for reading this rather long email, and I hope to continue working with everyone in this next year. Nigel Vander Houwen

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HamWAN Board Director Election 2021 - Rob Salsgiver
by Rob Salsgiver 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Greetings all, As Nigel has noted, it is that time again for elections, and I will put my name forward once again for your consideration. 2019 and 2020 have definitely been challenges in different ways for different people. 2021 is continuing that trend in yet different ways still. There are several expansion issues I am currently working in the EMCOMM side of the world including Pacific County, Spokane County and Region 9 surrounding counties, and some additional up here in Snohomish County. Pretty much all of my time this year through September will be take up with those efforts, as the funding has to be spent and projects completed by then. There are a number of areas within HamWAN the organization I would like to see us improve such as strategic planning, recruiting, training, reporting, and some of the business aspects of the organization. Few of these are new topics, but without some additional push and changes it is hard to include, train, and support new blood needed to keep the organization moving. Our website has been mostly stagnant for years, with little improvement or change in published items such as an accurate map, current equipment recommendations and sources, and finished configuration specs of standard resources beyond the client config script. This is not intended as a criticism of current or past individual efforts as everyone puts in the effort they have the time to give in the areas that interest them. It IS a call that we need to improve the SYSTEM and / or tools by which some of these items are maintained. We simply cannot move forward if we can't even maintain what we have. Vote AND Participate. It's not just Board members who are needed. We have a continuing need for climbers, ground crew, NetOps, mentors, advocates, programmers, and all sorts of help. If you see something you thing needs to be improved, let us know. If you see something you can do to help us improve, let us know. The voting period for myself will conclude 7 days from now. Supporting members, please reply in this thread with your Yea, Nay, or Abstain votes. Thank you all for your consideration, and I hope to have the opportunity to work with you further over the next year. Rob Salsgiver - NR3O

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Getting connected to HamWAN
by Jesse Victors 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Hey everyone! HamWAN has been on my radar for a couple months and I wanted to get connected. I have a couple options. 1) if 5 GHz can pass through double-paned glass, then I could point an antenna through the window from my work office in downtown Seattle, connecting with the hubs nearby or across the water. 2) if 5 GHz can pass through tree leaves, I could mount the dish on the mast holding the center of my HF fan dipole, as shown here: https://www.qrz.com/db/kj7yls At a height of 30 feet it might be able to connect with Paine. 3) if 5 GHz can pass through a thin piece of plywood and tree leaves, I could mount the antenna in my attic. That should be tall enough to jump over my neighbors house I think. Which of these would work? I'm leaning towards the first option. The second would work but it would just be more logistically difficult. I believe the third option would suffer significant signal degradation, yes? As far as antennas go, the LHG 5 seems to have pretty good performance, is within my hobby budget, and should work for the links that I have in mind, yes? It should also be lighter and more wind-resistant since its hollow. I should be able to mount that on a pole, connect PoE, and then work on the routing, correct? If this is a decent choice, where is a good place to order the International edition? Thanks for any advice with this! Jesse KJ7YLS

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Confirming Client Hardware page is current
by n7jww＠westseattlearc.org 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hello, I'm new at this, and I was perusing the Client Hardware page (https://hamwan.org/Standards/Component%20Engineering/Client%20Hardware.html ). I didn't see any timestamps. Is the information posted there current? Thanks so much, Jon aka N7JWW

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Votes for election - Cory, Nigel, Rob
by Rob Salsgiver 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Cory - Yes Nigel - Yes Rob - abstain (self)

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HamWAN Board Director Election 2021 - Cory Johnson & Nigel Vander Houwen
by Nigel Vander Houwen 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Hello Everyone, As per my usual procedure, I have reached out to my fellow board members to confirm who would like to serve again if elected and combined our emails to reduce email mess, and I have heard from Cory in the affirmative. I encourage my other fellow board members to run as well, and I hope to have the opportunity to work with you over the next year. Cory Johnson has acted as our Treasurer/Secretary for a number of years, and whose efforts have truly been invaluable. Cory handles the finances, makes sure the taxes get filed, and the bills get paid. Thank you Cory for your continued help! Nigel Vander Houwen (me) has been a board member for several years, managing contracts, and serves as the chairman (tie breaking vote we’ve thankfully never needed). He also typically manages these sorts of public communications and processes (like these elections). He has also been part of the network operations team for many years helping to architect, build, and operate the network here in Puget Sound. The voting period for Cory and Nigel will conclude 7 days from now. Supporting members, please reply in this thread with your Yea, Nay, or Abstain votes. Remember that each individual is a separate election, you do not have to choose one individual. Thank you all for your consideration, and I hope to have the opportunity to work with you further over the next year. Nigel Vander Houwen

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Grant Received to Deploy Oregon HamWAN from Vancouver Washington to Salem Oregon
by Herb Weiner 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Great news: Oregon HamWAN has received a substantial grant to deploy Oregon HamWAN on 12 towers between Vancouver Washington and Salem Oregon, and connect to the Puget Sound Data Ring. More information about this grant and a map showing the proposed towers is available here: https://www.oregonhamwan.org/ardc.html <https://www.oregonhamwan.org/ardc.html>. We invite you to subscribe to the Oregon HamWAN email list here: https://www.oregonhamwan.org/about.html <https://www.oregonhamwan.org/about.html>. Herb Weiner, AA7HW

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