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HamWAN board meeting soon
by Doug Kingston 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

The next HamWAN Board meeting is going to be Wednesday Jan 21st. If you have topics you would like the board to consider, please contact us at board(a)psrg.org, or you can reach out to one of the board members individually. -Doug-

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HamWAN mail services upgraded
by Doug Kingston 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Yesterday we replaced the HamWAN mail server and list server. We are now running on a new VM with the latest Postfix and Mailman3 releases. We have transferred all the list archives which are available at http://mailman.hamwan.net. If you are aware of any mail related issues, please report them to netops(a)hamwan.net or to me directly via dpk(a)randomnotes.org. -Doug-

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HamWAN Board Director Elections - Dec 2025
by Doug Kingston 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Greetings all, In order to cut down on the number of emails, I have combined those I know who have agreed to stand for election into this initial email. If you are a Supporting Member who wishes to also run for a Board position, PLEASE DO by announcing your intention via the list in similar fashion to below. Rob Salsgiver resigned from the board in November, but we have two new members who have agreed to stand for election this cycle. *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. His help in this area “behind the scenes” allows others to devote their time to the technical and operational sides of the organization. *Doug Kingston* (myself) has been heavily involved in most of the efforts to upgrade the network as part of the NetOps group in addition to the Board. He is also the HamWAN "Quartermaster" managing our inventory of spares and sourcing new kit. *Dylan Ambauen* has been with the organization several years as a contributing member of the NetOps group assisting with troubleshooting and regular maintenance, as well as participating in numerous site commissioning and de-commissioning operations. *Kenny Richards* has been a long-time member of NetOps team and has been the primary contributor to the maintenance of several sites including Baldi and Buck, as well as helping with many others. *Juan Vasquez* – part of the NetOps group, avid climber, assisted with site installations, maintenance, funding, and other items as needed. The voting period for the 5 individuals above 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. You can vote for all or any subset. Thank you all for your consideration, and I hope to have the opportunity to work with you further over the next year. Supporting members (provided by Cory, our Treasurer) who are eligible to vote as of 9 Dec 2025: Alan Scott Bob Edmiston Burt Guillot Casey R Hickerson Cory Johnson Dana Hanford David Spencer Doug Kingston Dylan Ambauen John C Miller Juan Vasquez Kenneth Koster Kenny Richards Nicholas Gerner Nigel Vander Houwen Randy Neals Robert Salsgiver Robert Sampson Terence Chan Tim Osburn If you believe the above list is in error, please let us know. Supporting member criteria can be found at https://hamwan .org/Administrative/Constitution.html -Doug-

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End of Year HamWAN Update
by Doug Kingston 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

As we come into December and the holiday season, I thought it would be good to get a summary of activity this year out to the PSDR community. HamWAN is thriving and continuing to grow despite the DNR setbacks a couple of years ago. *West Tiger Mountain* - The Boeing BEARS installed a full HamWAN cell site at the company's facility on West Tiger Mt. HamWAN supported the project with technical assistance but the project was funded by the BEARS and a couple of other donors. The site is connected to the rest of PSDR via 2 10GHz links capable of 500Mbits, one to Ziply Fiber in Everett (our primary internet connection point) and the other link to Capitol Park, which is well connected in the Seattle area. HamWAN will operate the cell site and its already attracting clients, some of whom were previously on East Tiger. We thank the BEARS for making this possible. *Baldi repairs *- Kenny with help from his son, replaced three CAT5 runs at Baldi - Beacon.Baldi PtP - bringing it back online - Baldi S2 - was damaged at routing point due to stress - Baldi PTZ Camera - was offline due to water damage All of the replacement CAT5 runs were re-routed to hopefully minimize the stress on the jackets. All three had failed due to water ingress where the jackets had holes from rubbing against the tower. With the new CAT5 run, also installed the new PTZ camera that had been removed due to damage/wear. *New Monitoring System* - We installed a new monitoring system based on Zabbix using the community edition of the commercial product <http://zabbix.com/>. This has added a lot better visibility of HamWAN system health. We still have some customization we want to accomplish (some additional parameter collection, map updates, inventory export), before we retire Cacti, but it's already been a great help. If you want to help with this, please reach out to netops@. *44.24.240.0/20 <http://44.24.240.0/20> returned *- On December 8th, we returned our network allocation of 44.24.240.0/20 to ARDC. We are now fully converted to our new network allocation, 44.25.0.0/16. *Indianola Power Improvement* - Dana Hanford moved our Indianola systems from AC power to the DC power bus, which is more resilient to failures. *RouterOS Fleet Upgrade* - We upgraded all the HamWAN maintained devices to RouterOS 7.x. At this point we can recommend this upgrade to all PSDR/HamWAN users. *Documentation Refresh* - Much of our online documentation has been updated and new documentation added. We also added a new client config generator to help make client configuration easier for users. A special round of thanks to our climbers including Alan Scott AC7MX, Juan Vasquez N7JMZ, and Kenny Richards KU7M who have done the bulk of our climbing this year. 2026 is looks to be a good year as well with new sites coming online. More on that when plans firm up. Happy Holidays! -Doug- KD7DK *on behalf of the HamWAN board*

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Replacement for Dynadish 5
by Doug Kingston 07 Dec '25

07 Dec '25

The Dynadish is discontinued. This was a good client device. The RBLHG-5HPnD-XL <https://mikrotik.com/product/RBLHG-5HPnD-XL> looks like the replacement and is a beefed up version of the smaller RBLHG-5nd <https://mikrotik.com/product/RBLHG-5nD>. Has anyone tested this device? If not, I'll order one and test it out. The other single unit client device is the QRT 5 panel which is still available. -Doug-

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Ham-wan equipment
by Donald Dodge 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

I would like to set up a ham-wan connection from Kirkland. Does anyone have some equipment i could try to make a connection before i buy some equipment Thanks Don Dodge Cell 714-271-7888 W6SNX

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Decommissioning of 44.24.240.0/20
by Doug Kingston 01 Nov '25

01 Nov '25

We have been working to migrate all HamWAN usage off of 44.24..240.0/20, so that we can return this to ARDC for re-assignment (as discussed an earlier email) and this HamWAN webpage <https://hamwan.org/Puget%20Sound%20Data%20Ring/Address%20Conversion.html>. Today we took the next step which is to cease advertising this subnet to the Internet. We will still support a few of these addresses on HamWAN for DNS lookups and NTP (anycast services) but otherwise there is no other use of those addresses on HamWAN. The reason for continuing to support these anycast addresses (listed below), is that they are still present in some end user devices which are statically configured. Devices that get these service addresses from HamWAN via DHCP are already using the new addresses If you have devices using the old anycast addresses below, please update them. If you notice any network problems you believe are attributable to these changes, please send an email to netops(a)hamwan.org, and/or reach out on our IRC channel: hamwan-support on libera.chat Thanks, -Doug- DNS recursive resolver Old anycast: 44.24.244.1, 44.24.245.1 --> New anycast: 44.25.0.1, 44.25.1.1 NTP servers Old anycast: 44.24.244.4, 44.24.245.4 --> New anycast: 44.25.0.4, 44.25.1.4

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PSDR HamWAN newsletter
by Donald Dodge 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

Please add me to the list. I live in Kirkland Thanks Don Dodge Cell 714-271-7888 W6SNX

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New Cell Site - West Tiger
by Doug Kingston 27 Sep '25

27 Sep '25

HamWAN and BEARS are happy to announce that there is a new HamWAN cell site activated at West Tiger Mountain (the Boeing radio site). The sectors are in a temporary location pending installation on a higher tower mounting, but they are already attracting connections, particularly from clients that would have otherwise connected to East Tiger. If you note connections you did not expect from your client or are experiencing connection issues related to East/West Tiger Mountain, this could be the cause. You may want to steer your client to one or the other. West tiger coverage will improve when the sectors get moved up on the tower. That will be some weeks from now as it needs to be scheduled with the installers. West Tiger has a 10Ghz link to Capitol Park and link to Everett in the works but not installed yet. -Doug- HamWAN Netops

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Kirkland area tunnel
by Donald Dodge 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

I have moved to Kirkland from SoCal and had a tunnel there. Is there a tunnel i can connect to up here? Thanks Don Dodge Cell 714-271-7888 W6SNX

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