<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan, AC7MX has been helping us plan a node at the Vashon EOC. We have the dish and have read your client node configuration page. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He mentioned we would need a static IP address. How do we go about acquiring that and what else might we need to know for the first connection?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’re attempting to provide backup for the fiber optic cable Internet at the EOC. Currently the only backup we have is text based e-mail over Winlink.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">73 Al K7NHV</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.S. The EOC is a volunteer 501 (c) 3 organization. See <a href="http://vashonbeprepared.org/" class="">http://vashonbeprepared.org/</a> </div><div class="">A committee of the ham club <a href="http://W7VMI.org" class="">W7VMI.org</a> operates the EOC radios. </div><div class="">I operate the HF/VHF Winlink gateways on Vashon at W7VMI and K7NHV.</div></body></html>