Brain dump follows...
So over the last couple of weekends I've been tinkering with my node(s) after finally getting some phat coax sorted for the minitar APs that Rob give to use on the slotted wave guides. Along with a much shorter mast I'll be putting up something this weekend after taking it all down after the big winds!
Also in the last week I noticed a car load of bloke with laptops and small antenna driving around my block slowly. There was also a lot of DHCP traffic and lots of ICMP action against the node. So this is either good or not. Haven't decided, so I've dropped my node of my internet gateway/VPN end point in the mean time. I'm going to change the way it all connects anyway, so its pre-empted the decision about how I want to set it all up.
Which leads me to spending a bit of time scouring the net to see whats current after being quite a bit pre-occupied with other issues over the winter. This always happens. Spring is way more productive as I get to spend some quality time making in the shed =)
I won't be running a mini conf at LCA09. Didn't have the bandwidth to get a proposal together. So will probably be attending as a regular punter. Which will mean that I get to play with actual tech and watch whats going on rather than running about like a nutter organising stuff like I did this year. This year I setup much of the network and helped organise the Access Points and it was a long hard slog. Lots of cool stuff to see and do, but I missed out on a lot that went on. I didn't get to see any keynotes, and only a handful of talks. Not to worry, next year should be pretty amazing.
Some of Winters distractions involve selling my car, large work load, getting another, large work load, the new one being off the road in need of repairs, being a radio op at ROSA, illness, large work load, illness, car problems, too cold to work in the shed... you know, the usual winter fun. Not to mention it was too cold to work in the shed!
Projects ahead for the next couple of months; put up mast on the car port, setup AS-MtB-node1, AS-MtB-node6, AS-MtB-node11, with the slotted wave guides, dig real foundations, put up a propper tower, move nodes to new tower, setup nodes at a friends place, get my 2M gear moved to the shed and get that setup on the tower, build better power supplies, get permanent power to the shed, insulate the shed, move the rack to the shed, get the UPS repaired and running again ...
Are there ever enough hours in a day? That reminds me, need to finish of the podcast stuff and get that up now that the replacement cabls for my headphones came in today and ... erm ... stickers that right, got to get those stickers sorted... but wait theres more my file server went pop recently after a power up/down/up/down/up thing last week and need to build that up in a more redundant way. Also would like to setup something with the WIA guys that stream the news and work on something podcasty/streaming related... folks keep asking me about video of AS meetings etc, so video is something I'm going to have to have a look at soon too.
That will do for now. 73's
