Heading South

Plans are now underway to expand coverage in the South beginning 2009 and your help is needed. Air-Stream Wireless is now the largest community wireless network in Australia and covers hundreds of square kilometers from North to South. Consequently, with the success of the 2008 Go West Plan mostly complete, the Network Planning Committee (NPC) are turning their attention to the South for 2009.

The NPC have begun by working with the South Coast Amateur Radio Club (SCARC) to help interconnect Two-Way radio repeaters and packet radio systems into the Air-Stream Network to use systems like IRLP and the Echolink Amateur Radio Network.

There are three main sites currently targeted for work, the first O'Halloran Hill which will have a major upgrade. Hackham West (SCARC Club House) and Mt Terrible (SCARC Repeater). Also there will be a number of other sites of SCARC members yet to be site surveyed and other links into the SouthernWifi network yet to be agreed and planned.

Nevertheless, the Air-Stream Wireless network would not have the size and coverage it has today without members, and for this new plan to be successful we also need membership and others to participate meaningfully. Please contact the committee to find out how you can help, even one extra person can make a real difference.

Members may view in detail and add potential nodes for the South through the members node database and mapping system..