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Hi SA clubs.

Plans for the Nov 9th event are well under way.
So far we have attending:

Strictly Ham
Yaesu Vertex
Radio Specialists
TET Emtron
Aztronics
Phil Grimshaw

NERC have volunteered to cook a BBQ. Thanks

All other clubs are invited to have a free table (not for selling) to promote their club etc.
(If you have already replied no need to again.) Please let me know soon if your club
wishes to take up this offer. The club promo tables will be in the second hall where
food will be available.

Regards
David Clegg
Secretary Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio society
0403 897 738
08 82788108

Have dug up backuped files and reinstalled the latest and greatest Nagios v3.0.1.
A minor issue in that my custom node icon is not being displayed .. still scratching the head on that one.

The localhost.cnf file has changed in format from the previous 2.x version which I was running and my old cnf file caused an error on nagios 3.0.1 startup, a bit of comparision and the new cnf format gleened .. (-:

Now have to chase up the new Air-Stream APs and nodes as I unfortunately lost that info with the hd crash, guess an rsync script running off of cron needs to be set up - all those ~/etc/ files can be easy to overlook when backing up!

holy crap I've been a member for over 2 years
-AND never been on the network.
one of these days ill find $50.
probarbly in 4 years when i get a real job

So its that time of month again ;) Yes the intense radio/puter/geek meeting weeks =) Adelaide Hills Amatuer Radio Society -
VK5BAR are having their monthly meeting on Thursday the 15th, May. I joined up as a member at the AGM in January. I finally received my certificate for my foundation licence last week, so I'm all good to go =)

I have a 10watt radio on loan from Jacqui and I've manged to listen to the WIA broadcast on Sunday morning. Only just mind, there was so much noise it was barely readable. Thats probably a task for this weekend is to get an antenna sorted for the 80 meter band. That was the clearest of all the available repeaters. The 40 meter band seemed pretty empty. The 10 meter band had the faintest of signals and the only thing I could pick up on 80 meters was the WIA broadcast. I had a 40 meter half wave length dipole strung across the front yard, well maybe more like a inverted vee, still need to build a decent balun too. Maybe HAMs don't get out of bed before 10am like other sane people? Maybe they've all been up late working the radio until the wee hours? ;) I need to get a better space for the radio and get an antenna up more permanently.

I have been looking at hacking apart a pcmcia card that i got for $10 from ebay. I took it apart the other day and noticed that it has a strange connector on it.. Anyone seen this before..?
I thought that it was a UFL connector but it doesnt appear to be. Some online forums said that it was mc or ufl but doesnt look like either..?
I shall get a pic in a day or so.. Just be patient.

Last night I had a meeting at the Mawson Lakes Hotel, which is adjacent to the Mawson Centre. I was pleasently surprised to find that I could not only see an Air Stream access point in the Mawson Centre, but I could actually connect to the Air Stream network (the access point was open).

I was able to immediately get through to www.air-stream.org and check my email, and (after nmap'ping my subnet as I had forgotten my IP addresses) get through to my servers. I was even able to update a wiki entry on MawsonLakes.Org (Internet: 202.174.42.5 Air-Stream: 10.106.0.4)

Well done to everyone at Air-Stream!

This site has been here for a while, almost 5 months and slowly getting closer to becoming an ap. The latest upgrade towards that was an upgrade from a
-Celeron 333Mhz Pc
-256mb SDram
-20gb hd (o/s linux + other partitions)
to a new computer donated by DJ-Hip from his surplus storage
-AMD Athlon XP 2000+
-1GB DDR2
-20gb (temp dir), 13gb (apache www server) and 10gb (o/s Gentoo Linux)
This will provide a lot better traffic flow when the ap is put up, as the Cel 333 was strugling with running when there was no ap. The wireless gear has remained the same 25db Hills dish to skye, Atheros 400mw card. The ap card is installed (sort of) which is a orinoco 20mw card. This will be upgraded as it is very very week for an ap.
The computer/server also moved in my roof, here are some pics.

Oops, looks like a hard drive failure on my G3 wifi router ... )-:
Betsuin might be down for a little bit ..

We're looking at some performance improvements and some new features. Should be packaged up for platforms of interest shortly.

hi all,

Top of tree has been tagged to OLSRD_0_5_6_RC1.

source tarballs can be downloaded at:

http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-rc1.tar.bz2
MD5 49d55a68d1b2b2ac040f4c4df179ba69

http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-rc1.tar.gz
MD5 d5161c51b8a3c75a1f19db1ff86c2e67

i am asking now the package maintainers to download, compile and test
on their target system and provide feedback (both positive and negative
feedback is welcome).

tentative release target for 0.5.6 will be May 10th.

/hannes

-- 
Olsr-dev mailing list

One of the key things about helping at an event like LCA08 is documenting things so that the team won't have to suffer the things you went through!

So begins the process of dumping ones brain to the Wiki...

Hopefully this might help others in their journey into building their networks =)