Hi all,

Just joining the list... I applied for a 44net subnet last week and am beginning the steps to do something cool and interesting with this.

I'm a new ham as of April 2013 (VE5EIS) and work on both VHF/UHF and the HF bands. I also am involved with a hobby project in Canada called the Metanetwork, where we link disparate networks together and learn about networking, route advertising, and so on. The project has gotten me to learn about all sorts of useful networking things such as using OpenVPN and deploying IPv6. My routers and my most interesting computers run Linux or BSD.

I'm hoping to learn more about packet radio and deploy some RF hops on my subnet. I have some ideas of some useful projects that could be done, e.g. UUCP over RF for email links between sites that don't have Internet or telephone connectivity.

At this point I'm working on getting either a tunnel or permission to set up BGP advertising for my subnet, and then it'll be time to figure out what to do with this project. I'm hoping to have a lot of fun with it and learn from you guys - see what you're doing, grab some great ideas, maybe leverage them with some of my own experience and knowledge.

Thanks,

Jim VE5EIS

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada DO70