[HamWAN PSDR] Status of HamWan in Puget Sound?

[Matthew Lawson]

http://www.hume.vt.edu/geo/

*AMSAT Phase4B Project Specficiations:*

   - SDR-based 5 & 10 GHz amateur satellite payload being designed to take
   advantage of geosynchronous launch opportunities
   - Rideshare established on the US Air Force Remote Sensing Program
   Office Wide Field of View (WFOV) geosynchronous satellite being designed by
   Millennium Space Systems
   - Software-defined radio (SDR) payload from Rincon Research Corporation


*First Responder Applications:*

   - Resilient assets allow for 24/7 coverage for amateur radio
   communications
   - Trained operators mobilize to disaster areas to provide emergency
   communications support
   - Support from FEMA and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)


Keep an eye on this. Its a Geo Stationary Sat with Ham Radio on board. It
will have data links and is designed with ECOM in mind.

Just thought I would mention it.

73!

*Matthew Lawson*
*KC7EQO*
*442.100 + 100 Hz PL Blyn Mt Repeater*


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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Ryan Elliott Turner <ryan.e.t at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Satellite based internet providers may also have performance degredations
> in a high-utilization period -- while they're not cellular, they do utilize
> spot beams, which segments their services. I'll leave it to others more
> familiar with this technology to elaborate; I don't know enough about their
> pre-emption abilities to say how impactful this would be.
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com>
> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> I think any option you listed is susceptible. HamWAN is designed to be as
>> robust as possible with multiple paths to most everything. But it can
>> conceivably fail for parts or all of the network. It’s another option.
>> There’s a finite chance that service X will fail in the earthquake, the
>> more services you have available to you, the more chances one will still
>> work.
>>
>> Your ground based Hughes dish is just as vulnerable to earthquake shaking
>> as your HamWAN client dish would be, and I have to believe given the
>> history in earthquakes, that the cell networks will be entirely overloaded
>> and useless, assuming you get a signal at all.
>>
>> Also note that HamWAN isn’t supposed to be an “internet replacement”, it
>> does have connectivity to the internet, and if that still works in the case
>> of the big one, great! Consider HamWAN closer to an island, like yourself.
>> There’s all sorts of connectivity within the island. (EOC/DEM, Hospitals,
>> etc.), and it has links to the internet for greater access.
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2016, at 19:49, John V. Cornelison <john at VashonSoftware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> A couple of tech savvy folks on Vashon are recommending against HamWan
>> for emergency Internet access if Vashon’s sole fiber optic connection to
>> the mainland gets severed. Apparently the problem is that the nodes
>> wouldn’t survive an earthquake ‘reorienting’ the antennas. Can anyone
>> confirm the validity of this?
>>
>> Given that HamWan seems to have been created about 2005-2007, are there
>> any more modern alternatives for robust internet to Vashon Island?
>>
>> We’re currently leaning toward (the much pricier) Hughes or other
>> satellite dish connection.
>>
>> I know of the incoming/potential www.onenet.wa.gov for public service
>> agencies – which should be available to us. We had considered a microwave
>> hookup to the South King County data center near Tukwila or to a commercial
>> provider such as www.accelnet.net/www.cortland.com. Some cell towers
>> from the mainland reach parts of Vashon too, enabling a hot spot approach.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> Thanks & happy holidays,
>>
>> John Cornelison
>> KE7KDQ
>> VashonBePrepared.org <http://www.vashonbeprepared.org/>
>> VashonEOC.org <http://www.vashoneoc.org/>
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