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Nomination: Nigel Vander Houwen
by Benjamin Krueger 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

I nominate Nigel Vander Houwen for a directorship term. -- Benjamin

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director responsibilities
by Rob Salsgiver 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

I was going to ask if there were any specific duties, responsibilities, and/or expectations for directors - then I went online and looked it up. In the context of the current vote, is there any value in having a discussion on what expectations there should be of prospective directors? Cheers, Rob

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VOTE: Bart Kus running for Director
by Bart Kus 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello, HamWAN presently has 0 directors. All of our terms lapsed and without a list of Supporting Members it was impossible to hold elections. We need to file taxes, and then file our 501c3 application. We also cannot approve any spending without any directors to vote on it, which isn't good for deploying new sites. So... I'm announcing my intention to hold a Director position on the HamWAN board. I'm choosing my voting period as the next 7 days starting immediately. If anyone has any questions about my intentions for the next year, feel free to ask. I'll be pushing in much the same directions as in the past, with added emphasis on wider reach publicity. Each supporting member gets to cast 1 Yay or Nay vote for me, or can choose to abstain from voting. As a supporting member myself, my vote is Yay for Bart Kus. :) Please reply on the list to cast your votes. We'll do it better next time with some kinda web-based voting system. --Bart

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HamWAN Supporting Members List
by Bart Kus 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello, After an audit, we're publishing our first (updated monthly) list of official Supporting Members: Bart Kus Benjamin Krueger Cory Johnson Curt Black Jason Williams Kenneth Richards Nigel Vander Houwen Robert Salsgiver These are people: 1) Who have been HamWAN members for at least 6 months, and 2) Whose donations sum up to $120 over the last 6 months (with possible re-disbursement at $20/mo (Basic level) for larger previous donations, when it is favorible to attaining Supporting Member status) These people are eligible to run for Director positions and to cast votes for Director Candidates. If you believe there is an error in this list, please let me know. We have not opened up the financial records that drive the membership of this list, but would like to do so going forward to enhance transparency and catch any errors. If you're a donor and would NOT like to have your donations be published, please let me know. --Bart

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Need a pair of horn antennas
by Bart Kus 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Hello, I'm in need of a matching pair of microwave horn antennas to conduct RF absorber testing. They don't need to be particularly large (desk-top-ish size preferred), nor high gain, nor dual-polarity, nor high power capable. They do need to work over the 5-6GHz range, and have either N or SMA connectors. Low price is also a big factor. Please share your findings (URLs to pages where they can be bought for a published price) with the list in this thread. Thanks for any help, --Bart

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New Site Announcement - Mirrormont
by Nigel Vander Houwen 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Hello All, I'd like to take this opportunity to announce the availability of our newest site in Mirrormont which provides coverage for areas in Maple Valley, Covington, and surrounding areas. Check out the map at hamwan.orgto see if it may provide coverage for where you live. Due to the positioning of this site, only sector 3 is installed, pointing 270 degrees, relative to North. Other directions would have serviced dirt, so those resources will be saved for other sites. The site was brought online after a trip up this last weekend to do some finishing work, following the initial deployment by Bart AE7SJ and Tom KD7LXL. This trip was attended by Tim W7RSZ, Rod WE7X, Bart AE7SJ, and myself K7NVH. I'd also like to thank Rod WE7X for being instrumental in getting this site going and linking it into the rest of the network. Thank you, Nigel K7NVH

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Need 2 snowmobiles + trailer for Sunday
by Bart Kus 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hi, Anybody have any snowmobiles and/or snowmobile trailer(s) they can lend for Sunday? They will be needed to go up a mountain by Sultan, WA for a site survey. I think we'll need at least 2 snowmobiles. --Bart

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Introducing myself
by Charles N. Wyble 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, Charles Wyble here. I'm the cofounder and CTO of the Free Network Foundation. Our website is located at http://www.thefnf.org I'm trying to join the communities of all of the community wireless networks in the United States and offer the full resources of the Free Network Foundation. We have a fully redundant networking/compute/storage infrastructure (called FreedomCenter) located in the central US (Joes Data Center in Kansas City Missouri). If you would like to have a backup BGP announcement location or to host on our "cloud" (IRC/Web/mail), please let us know. You can find full details on our infrastructure here: https://commons.thefnf.org/index.php/FreedomCenter If we can help you connect with other networks (computer and human), or otherwise assist please let us know! By the way, I found this project via: https://www.diyisp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=technical:architecture Feel free to contact me direct (charles(a)thefnf.org) or at 818 280 7059. We also have a couple mailing lists: https://lists.thefnf.org/ Builders / Discuss is the main forums we use. Of course we also have a wiki: https://commons.thefnf.org/index.php/Main_Page Glad to be here! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS5c/cAAoJEMvvG/TyLEAtSfwQALQLsmXrLsUK/ipIZpFeL/OE ExuIsvfbx8UhPrWZOj1jKrBRuKhLA1Hjo2cD2Lcz9VWVjYF+oxyK6RMDYkc9TN02 xjoTAjYIbhchi6vIy3aIVtJkDuQ5osv5a19FsuIgKC7eRbR3jMH13echxu/U1wW+ PxbdR3zN0AHfB9jMYz1rbS+ViZEbZWhFf/sLSlXWAuJ0bd6ls8NADyJoOSFet9MB y1ngBJGAmBHlOtrcOycwiC6pnmGc29xY+rn2objg9oDL/tVvDYPJUzWjmOCLIpQI PvKJefW8SJmsvHAcUn8O22fXQYhpxaRRbNuZ1EI39kk+J93K6xdjhIsDQHPTGVh+ +O4b7UfyIUE5/bAlrqmIrNYlFMiHiFLn+WmX5TPuiMukxTuP7gGO5UZNYcD1vLSo Jb4da5qNXCdG62FDSBBmB/cvCZq1UVgzYwbSqpMT/zdcMzImvcSrKNDjVBKUkpK5 sRVG31L/Gxui7vt4GXYQojLJW1P44W883KAfFrA48vZUcdfdLm+st8/WC5KjRe4W gpaXcbmo0usrViu71waXGF8fwfPWxUwgsaiW6GYHZaDQ5ntY5+N+oOJmsJ93IJuw MMyAkauhMxlQ2Rz+2OUV2R4H48gJ8F2wkq0WvGdq81xekYXIPUFqBmh3U6kx/M5e hxRZbfphFEw9jNbNl2Lx =lAuw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] outage notifications
by Erik Robins 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Thanks, this is good information.

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Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Fwd: [Netops] Short Monitoring Outage
by KL7WM＠aol.com 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

Thanks Bart Daniel Stevens KL7WM In a message dated 1/12/2014 2:39:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, me(a)bartk.us writes: Not sure if the general discussion HamWAN list (psdr) cares about outage notifications. Probably not. Here's one example, forwarded below. We also had an outage of Baldi a couple days ago during very heavy rain + wind. It was intermittent. I brought up a secondary link to Baldi in response to this, and have left it on to be used by the routers as a backup route when the primary uplink fails. We REALLLLY need to align that Baldi dish so this link doesn't fail. We're presently working off a side lobe, and the main lobe of the Baldi uplink is aimed @ Cougar Mtn instead. As cool as that is, it's throwing away signal. We've had some other edge/uplink router outages in the past, and have deployed self-healing scripts now to avoid any future occurrences of these. Overall, I'd say we're improving stability, not just chasing our tail. There's still a very problematic Paine-CapitolPark link. Could be mitigated with dish alignment. --Bart -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Netops] Short Monitoring Outage Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:16:35 -0800 From: Nigel Vander Houwen _<nigelvh(a)gmail.com>_ (mailto:nigelvh@gmail.com) To: _netops(a)hamwan.org_ (mailto:netops@hamwan.org) Looks like we had a short outage for Cacti (and by extension, the map on the homepage). MySQL stopped itself due to low RAM. I've bumped the RAM allocation from 512MB to 1GB and restarted things. All is happy. Also, syslogging continued without issue. FYI. -- Nigel Vander Houwen _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR(a)hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.org/mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.org

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