I can echo a lot of what Robbie wrote.
My dad was in broadcast radio when I was younger. I read an article by Larry Kollar, KC4WZK on the Amateur Packet Radio Network that was floating around on dial-up BBS's and really caught my attention. That kind of sealed the deal that I needed to get into the hobby.
When the locals gave me a copy of NOS, that was great. Before you know it I had two NOS boxes networked using NE2000 drivers. Moved from 1200 to 9600, and drooled when reading the VE3JF higher speed pages. We even did webpages on 9600 baud RF in the mid 90's when we all gravitated to Linux.
Lots of learning and fun.
Moving forward if you know anyone in the hobby with coding skills there are plenty of things that can be done. Hopefully in the future we can attract a few more of these types when they see the relevance ham radio can offer with higher speed networks and that sort.
I am sure Chris could use a hand. How about a openwrt package for hams? Be that out of part 15 frequency control, or something like rip44d
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/packages
Then there is always application ideas on 44net. I am impressed with what is out there already.
On the RF side the broadband hamnet firmware developers could probably always use a hand too.
73 Steve, KB9MWR
Unfortunately the broadband hamnet devs wouldn't accept any help. Its really unfortunate. I offered numerous times to help with porting to ubiquiti, port to newer version of openwrt, write up documentation etc. I needed just a bit of access to the developers to make sure i wasnt duplicating work and staying inline with the roadmap etc.
They completely ignored all offers and actually kicked me off the mailing list. I am based in Austin, went to meetings, did show and tell of various bits of kit etc.
Most impolite and uncivilized behavior.
I'm a system and network engineer with almost 25 years of experience. I've worked for some of the world's largest web properties, built mesh networks before they were popular etc etc etc. I offered to help for free. The number one complaint of the folks was the lack of others to help and lack of compensation. However they refused anyone new who wanted to help and censored me and others who pointed that out. They also were opposed to user content (wiki, blog) and wanted to retain 100% control. Very much not a FLOSS project unfortunately.
It was most disappointing, as they've got the best olsr integration for openwrt. I've considered forking the project but decided to move on to qmp.cat firmware (bmx based) instead.
On April 2, 2014 11:40:25 PM CDT, kb9mwr@gmail.com wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ I can echo a lot of what Robbie wrote.
My dad was in broadcast radio when I was younger. I read an article by Larry Kollar, KC4WZK on the Amateur Packet Radio Network that was floating around on dial-up BBS's and really caught my attention. That kind of sealed the deal that I needed to get into the hobby.
When the locals gave me a copy of NOS, that was great. Before you know it I had two NOS boxes networked using NE2000 drivers. Moved from 1200 to 9600, and drooled when reading the VE3JF higher speed pages. We even did webpages on 9600 baud RF in the mid 90's when we all gravitated to Linux.
Lots of learning and fun.
Moving forward if you know anyone in the hobby with coding skills there are plenty of things that can be done. Hopefully in the future we can attract a few more of these types when they see the relevance ham radio can offer with higher speed networks and that sort.
I am sure Chris could use a hand. How about a openwrt package for hams? Be that out of part 15 frequency control, or something like rip44d
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/packages
Then there is always application ideas on 44net. I am impressed with what is out there already.
On the RF side the broadband hamnet firmware developers could probably always use a hand too.
73 Steve, KB9MWR _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net@hamradio.ucsd.edu http://hamradio.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/44net
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Hmm, even here you may notice several people with quite networking experience wanted to get involved but when they asked for help because it is not that easy to understand how 44net works as there is tremendous lack of information, they got pretty rude replies, like, they should write documentation themselves.
It's like there is some kind of elitism. If you are not involved in development since mid 70's, and if you actually need to read documentation, then you are not in a game.
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