"Wireless Battle of the Mesh" is being held from 26 March-1 April in Athens: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV5
Part of the event is a "Warm Up" at Sarantaporo village - ~200Km north of Athens, with currently 9 wifi mesh networks in the surrounding area.
They have some nice links graphing their meshes:
Sarantaporo: http://www.sarantaporo.gr/node/98
Milea: http://www.sarantaporo.gr/node/141
Farmaki: http://www.sarantaporo.gr/node/211
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
Let’s face it – to engage in such revolutionary technical pursuits as pioneering community wireless networking is a task (or pleasure) which befalls a certain unique group within our society. Now, not to be too specific here, but we can safely make a couple of important generalisations without offending anyone too geekishly-inclined or other; we’re male, relatively young, externally socially inept yet internally socially adept, intelligent and have a passion for adventure, albeit polar opposite to in manifestation, but certainly as strong as your average extreme sports junkie.
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.
New Release Candidate It is well known fact that it takes time to build quality, and sometimes more time than expected. The OpenWrt developers would like to announce the availability of OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09 RC1. You can find it at http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09_RC1 Release Candidate 1 for Kamikaze 8.09 New changes/features include: * Busybox upgraded to 1.11.2 * Kernel upgrades for all targets * uClibc upgraded to 0.9.29 * Firewall rewrite, fully modular netfilter/iptables support - Syntax of /etc/config/firewall converted to UCI * ipkg package manager replaced with opkg - package lists moved to ramdisk, lists are not retained between reboots. - `opkg update' must be run after each reboot before new packages are installed * Broadcom 47xx running reliably with the new Kernel, including b43 wireless driver - WEP, WDS and multi-SSID not yet supported - AP mode and STA mode are supported with WPA, WPA2, or no encryption * IMQ and Traffic shaping fixed with newer kernels (2.6.25+) * Sysupgrade for x86, broadcom and adm5120 * New web interface (LuCI, Lua Configuration Interface) * New HAL and driver for Atheros based WiFi cards * Attention towards the integration of security updates * Build system cleanup * Package maintaining and updates between releases
Here is an intereting blog post on long distance optical links.
olsrd-0.5.6-r2 released !
source tarballs can be downloaded at: http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r2.tar.bz2 MD5-sum eb72e4899142daa1a6237831da40eb74 http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r2.tar.gz MD5-sum acf15dbd0af521a6826541b567c6473a
As part of the quest for useful content, I've been thinking about what software I have on my file server. Much of it is Linux distros, source code for packages I have been tinkering with, images and documentation I've downloaded from the net.
With that I've tried to distill a set of Distros that other people would find useful. The weekend brings an announcement of a new Linux Distro that has finally hit 1.0
Here is the announcement;
The INX team is proud to announce the release of "INX Is Not X", Version 1.0. INX is a "Live CD" distribution of GNU/Linux, derived from Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, but using "ubuntu-minimal" and "ubuntu-standard" as a base. It is console only, without any graphical "X" programs. INX is intended as a "tutorial" and introduction to the Bash command line, but is a fully capable, portable GNU/Linux system in its own right. It has a collection of easy-to-use menus, colour themes, easy configuration tools, music (and video on the frame buffer), some games, and several surprises for those who are not aware of what can be done in a console/tty. INX is fun, and not intimidating for console beginners. INX 1.0 also includes new features; you can now set up wireless with the "Ceni" tool from the INX "Net & Web" menu. You can use your mouse with programs like xlinks2, elinks, mc, and the jed text editor. In addition to the powerful GNU Screen program, INX now sports the "Dvtm" Dynamic Virtual Terminal Manager, a "tiled terminal manager".
You can find the original announce message here.
You can download a .torrent or .iso here.
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
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.
