Last month my family took a long-awaited vacation to New Mexico. We had originally planned to take this trip, which consisted of visiting Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico and then camping in northern New Mexico, in 2020. Due to several circumstances including COVID, the trip has been delayed until […]
Ham Corner
During the K5EOK Field Day on Saturday, June 22nd, we held a 10M dipole build activity and we had the following high level results. In total 13 dipoles antennas were built during field day from 20 parts kits with 5 of them raised and tested successfully during the activity period. […]
Due to work issues I have not been able to finish the next part, but meantime here is an update to local mesh goings on. We now have a node stack up on Dwain’s or the grainery in downtown Edmond. The link antenna to the rest of the network is […]
In this section we will take a look at some of the hardware used in a node site. AREDN® is one of the lowest cost parts of the service. The radios are not expensive, with the most costly being the sector antennas (the long vertical boxes you see on cell […]
In this section we will look at the two remaining tabs or pages. These pages are accessed via the [Setup] page. Here is a view of the Administration page: Starting at the top you see two entries [Help] and [Reboot]. Help will bring up help pages for this screen. And […]
The Port Forwarding DHCP, and Services screen, depending on your needs you may work here a bit. Starting on the left you have DHCP Address Reservations. Hostname is the host name of the device you are going to set as static. IP address is the address assigned by the DHCP […]
Last time I discussed “What is a net?”, the two types of nets (formal and informal) and both of the EARS weekly nets. This week, I will discuss public service, weather spotting and emergency communication nets. Let’s start with public service, weather spotting and emergency communication nets as they are […]
Basic Setup screen, this is where clicking on the [Setup] button brings you Starting at the top we have the red lettered selectable text, as soon as clicked on they become highlighted. We are now on [Basic Setup]. We will now go over the parts of this screen. The line […]