16 Feb
2016
16 Feb
'16
3:51 a.m.
Hi Rob,
We are 320 000 humans in Corsica, and a little bit more than 100
amateurs. During summer, the population climbs over a million. Among
them, several contest / IOTA / SHF / ATV teams used to come here for
special events, or just for holidays. They often use "special" callsigns.
According to our last meeting, approx. 30 local people would be
interested. We'll have 5 "geographical" areas (the island is small, but
there are a lot of mountains, HI). I think we'll have 10 technical sites
with permanent installations (repeaters, contest sites, datacenters).
The rest will be a "decentralized" and/or "meshed" network. I think
we'll provide pre-configured Raspberri Pi or OpenWRT boxes to
individual operators (so that anybody can start playing around
immediately, without having to learn network techniques such as IP,
subnet masks, VPN, etc...).
We don't need 65000 addresses at all ! The idea was to have a little bit
more than a /24, and to have a dedicated subnet for our "country", with
local coordination and subnetting rules.
Of course, a /20 would be perfect !
73 de TK1BI & TK5EP
Le 15/02/2016 23:02, Rob Janssen a écrit :
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
_______________________________________________
Subject:
[44net] Obtaining a /16 network for a specific DXCC country (TK) ?
From:
Toussaint OTTAVI <t.ottavi(a)bc-109.com>
Date:
02/15/2016 10:31 AM
To:
<44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu>
Hi,
I'm TK1BI, and I'm living in Corsica. It's a small island in the
Mediterranean sea. It's a French "department". But it's a specific
DXCC country : TK.
With my friend TK5EP, we are managing the TK5KP radio-club, which has
been very active for years. We are now designing a hamnet network for
our island. I'm wondering if it would be possible to obtain a /16
subnet for our "country". If so, what would be the requirements ?
How many radio amateurs are there in Corsica, and how many of them are
likely to be active on the digital network?
There are 134 callsigns in the QRZ.COM list for TK*. Maybe only those
that voluntarily listed themselves are there?
I think other countries of similar population size got a /20 assigned...
Not that we have a shortage of address space, and not that I want to
withhold you a /16, but it seems a bit large.