[RndTbl] Yesterdays Slides

[Dan Keizer]

forgot to mention -- while all the pics are pretty much mine, I do write
about our little project a bit on my radio blog ... if you filter it
through -- i haven't indexed the keywords that well -- but you get the
picture...

http://ve4drk.keizer.ca/

Dan.

On 10 February 2016 at 12:07, Dan Keizer <dan at keizer.ca> wrote:

> Thanks Wyatt -- great discussion.
>
> Interesting to point out that while the Manitoba Unix Users Group (
> http://muug.mb.ca) had it's meeting discussing RF and radio
> communications, the Winnipeg Amateur Radio Club (http://winnipegarc.org)
> had it's meeting a day prior discussing computers and applications. :-)
>
> There are at least a half dozen ham radio operators (including Wyatt, who
> presented) that are MUUG attendees.
>
> There is a Winnipeg and regional ham-radio wireless network which is
> established, operating and routing within the city.  This is using amateur
> radio specific frequencies outside the unlicenced 2.4/5.8 GHz spectrum -
> that being 2.3/etc frequencies.  These frequencies are allocated by
> Industry Canada and amateur radio operators have assignments in those
> bands.  We also can run higher power with much more directional control of
> RF than would otherwise be available to the public.
> As an example, we have sector antennas mounted on a tall building in
> downtown area which provides a 5 MHz channel.  With that, I can sustain
> 10Mbps down and 2Mbps up on a 20(ish) db antenna mounted on my house - all
> within the amateur radio spectrum allocation.  There are backhaul links for
> a few other connections that are in place.  We also provide a PBX for local
> and regional calling.
> To read more, check out:  http://va4wan.ampr.org/    Be sure to check out
> the cool pics of our setups...  Thanks to Les (http://les.net) for
> providing BGP routing and air-fibre connection.
>
> One item was mentioned at the meeting and that was there is an upcoming
> ham radio class where you can write the exam and get your ham radio
> licence.  Information can be found on the WARC website as such:
> http://winnipegarc.org/basic_course.html
> It is a highly popular course these days with over 2 dozen currently
> scheduled in the class.  (And no, you don't need to know morse code to get
> your radio licence these days -- but it is a fun mode).
> There's been a significant amount of convergence between the radio (RF)
> world and the digital (CPU) world in the past while -- things are getting
> interesting.
>
> Dan.
>
>
>
>
> On 10 February 2016 at 09:10, Wyatt Zacharias <wyatt at magitech.ca> wrote:
>
>> If anyone would like to download the slides from last nights meetings
>> they are available in pptx and pdf formats at the links below.
>>
>> http://muug.mb.ca/meetings/WirelessTheoryandRegulations.pdf
>> http://muug.mb.ca/meetings/WirelessTheoryandRegulations.pptx
>>
>>
>> --
>> Wyatt Zacharias
>>
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