Like others, we setup our network here (well, the current generation of it that uses WiFi links, tunnels, automatic routing, internet routing etc) in the first place to build a multisite repeater system. We wanted to place receivers and transmitters all over the country and connect them into a single network using SVXlink. Others want to do the same thing with D-Star, DMR, etc. And we have ATV repeaters that typically have a lot of equipment (receivers, transcoders, modulators, etc) that is all IP-managable and the operator of the repeater wants to control it from home. So we setup this network and we also installed access points for users, and encourage then to experiment with e.g. VoIP. And users also contribute to the redundancy of the network, when they have a WiFi link to some nearby access point and a tunnel over their internet connection to our gateway. Such connections can become a fallback link to the site when a link to another site fails.
Some of the equipment is accessible only from within this network, but some systems are accessible (on their 44.137.x.x IP address) from the internet, e.g. for Echolink connections to repeaters, status websites, WebSDR installations, etc.
Rob
On 8/10/21 10:58 PM, Lynn Grant via 44Net wrote:
Greetings,
I have been a ham for over 50 years (though not recently active), and have been involved with networks for about 20, so I am following the recent discussions with great interest.
While I can understand in general terms what might be done with hybrid Internat-ham radio links, I would find it very useful to see examples of what other hams are currently doing with them. Would it be possible to have a few hams do short write-ups on what they are doing, and put them on the ARDC home page? Right now, it seems heavily skewed towards how to set up the networking end of things (which, of course, is very important, and something that hams new to networking could use some help with), with not much attention given to "Why would I want to do this?"
Thanks, and 73,
Lynn Grant N8AF / V31LK _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net@mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net