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ABC Radio National program Future Tense played a program this morning on providing communications for the underprivileged with Adelaide's Paul Gardner-Stephen and David Rowe.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2011/3353120.htm

Many thanks to those who have worked long and hard to get ASLAN15 up and running again at a new venue.

At our August meeting we where fortunate to have Professor David Powers talk about an exciting world robotics competition being held here in Adelaide.

Flinders University in the MAGIC 2010 Challenge

A consortium led by Flinders University with the support of leading defence contractor Thales is one of only six (and the only team from Australia) to have been short-listed for the final from an international field to take part in a global war games challenge.

At our July members meeting we where very privileged to have Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen as our guest speaker to talk to us about his exciting new project using off-the-shelf smart phones that operate on an open source platform called Android and yes it uses wireless too.

This mobile platform has allowed for the integration of Asterisk and wireless mesh systems used in the Village Telco Project with Paul's own software, DNA (‘Distributed Numbering Architecture’) to create the Batphone an exciting, revolutionary new concept that will change the way we view communications.

Visit his website to learn more.

Also as seen on the New Inventors!

Hi all
I was asked by a friend if there is a way to improve his Telstra next g connection. He lives at Woodchester in the hills and is in the fringe of the nearest tower. There is no ADSL where he is and now that isdn has been turned he is stuck with next g. I have got him a yagi to replace the omni on his roof. I was wondering if there is a good mini pci card to put into a routerboard to replace his Telstra modem. It may be necessary to mount it on a tower on the top of the hill and set up a link back to the house. With any luck he will get Optus or Vodafone from the hill as Telstra is not all that good on price per gig

Darren

Hello.

Since the sad loss of Southern Wi-Fi a few months back and some of the network going down, is there anyone still alive/willing to give it a go again?

I believe the Tafe link is still running, so thats a start, but it would be nice to get some end users going up here!

What do you guys think?

Air-Stream Wireless was able to assist the Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club with their display at the "Science at the Lakes" event held on Friday, 21 August. With access the to Air-Stream network, Paul Schulz (Air-Stream member and member of the Elizabeth Amatuer Radio Club), was able to set up an OpenVPN tunnel back to his home network, and provide internet to the local computer subnet.

Recently I noticed that there have been a number of potential nodes around the Adelaide coast line. Well, tonight at the committee meeting we met with Andrew Bedford to chat about the next step in the pilot project for building a network between the Surf Life Saving clubs. Andrew has some interesting applications, I'm looking forward to see to see how this pans out. Certainly would be good to see the network grow along the coast.