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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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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] PSDR Digest, Vol 61, Issue 32
by Mark Weisenfeld 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

I have the following set to YES for Digest mode. *Set Digest Mode* If you turn digest mode on, you'll get posts bundled together (usually one per day but possibly more on busy lists), instead of singly when they're sent. If digest mode is changed from on to off, you may receive one last digest. Off On However, I still get several "Digests" a day, recently. I am a little surprised at that. Other groups I am subscribed to do not do this. If Mailman has a setting that determines when to send a digest, and it set really low, possibly to impress people like me that the group is a live and well and saying a lot of encouraging things, well ... it is working. But we may not need to have so many digests per day. It gets hard to digest (smerk).

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SnoDEM & East Tiger
by Nigel Vander Houwen 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Evening everyone, After this last weekend’s upgrades, we ran into some trouble with the backup link we’ve been feeding SnoDEM with since we’ve been seeing the issues at Gold. Since then SnoDEM and East Tiger which is currently backhauled to SnoDEM were seeing problematic connectivity. At this point we’ve been able to restore the backup link, so you should see connectivity from the SnoDEM and East Tiger sites again. Thank you for your patience, and as always we appreciate all the help so many folks have volunteered. Nigel

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vote for Cory
by Sheppard, Mark 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

I vote Yah for Cory - Mark Sheppard

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OPP outage and vulnerability warning
by Tom Hayward 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

This morning I discovered a bunch of failed login attempts to HamWAN routers coming from other HamWAN routers. When checking the list of logged in users, there weren't any. Apparently something was able to remotely execute code on HamWAN routers without logging in. I think it may be related to this: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=119255. Nigel and I worked to identify the traffic and patch the hole. We were able to stop it through a combination of firewall rules, disabling services, and upgrading software. One casualty is that upgrading the software on Seattle-ER1 broke the OPP IPsec configuration. We haven't figured out how to fix this, so OPP is down for now. To protect your equipment from this exploit, you can disable unnecessary services like this: /ip service disable telnet,ftp,www,api,winbox,api-ssl Make sure to do this from SSH so that you know it's working before disabling Winbox! This is a reminder of the importance of strict firewall rules. Nigel is a wise man. Tom

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Not running for board
by Ryan Turner 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hi PSDR, This year I will not be running for the board of directors. It was a pleasure serving on previous boards, and I intend to stay active in the mailing list. I need to focus on our local organization's growth in Memphis, and I do not want to stand in the way of Seattle's progress. I do not intend to be elected as a director. Thanks, K0RET

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VOTE: Board Director Elections - Doug Kingston
by Doug Kingston 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hello everyone, This is my announcement of intention to run as a board member for HamWAN. Voting will last for 7 days from this notice. I have been actively using HamWAN in the Puget Sound for over a year both as a client and helping with construction of Beacon Hill sector. As the president of PSRG and one of the primary engineers for Seattle ACS, I represent an important set of users and supporters, especially the EMCOMM community who are embracing this technology rapidly. I hope to help the HamWAN project with developing more partnerships, sites and support. I am also interested in improving the the suite of internally hosted services. -Doug- KD7DK

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VOTE: Board Director Elections - Cory Johnson
by Cory (NQ1E) 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

If the votes remain in my favor, I will continue my tenure on the board. :) I want to thank Doug for stepping up as well. Having worked with him on both PSRG and Seattle ACS, I know for a fact that he will be a valuable addition to the board. In a seemingly futile effort to minimize these annual email storms, I'm going to include my votes here. I'll also be preemptively voting for our other two incumbent officers should they choose to run again. Cory's votes: Nigel Vander Houwen: Yay Doug Kingston: Yay Cory Johnson: Abstain Bart Kus: Yay Ryan Turner: Yay

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Director Elections - David Yost
by d＠vid.ca 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

I hope this is everyone who is running :) Nigel Vander Houwen: Yay Doug Kingston: Yay Cory Johnson: Yay Bart Kus: Yay Ryan Turner: Yay -David Yost

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