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| | Owner: jonathan Location: Park Street, Pascoe Vale Status: Gathering Info SSID: Not yet... Connecting... You can't, just yet! |
Node Log
19/05/05 - Registered on Melbourne Wireless
18/06/05 - Got up on the roof and took some LOS photographs
18/06/05 - Got up on the roof and took some LOS photographs
Equipment
I run Ubuntu Linux (Warty Warthog 4.10) on my main machine, and have a second older machine with Win98 & Debian Sarge.
I have Ralink RT2500 based wifi cards in both machines, and am playing about a bit with them
Plans
I am looking to create a node for the fun of it. I'll need some help, I guess, in testing it when I get it operational. First things first though, some research...
As I'm in a little bit of a hollow, I'll probably need to put up a reasonably high mast. I've been in touch with Adrian (Node HKP) which is the closest node I'd have a chance of connecting with. This is really a chicken and the egg scenario though.
I have gotten up on the roof and taken some LOS photographs. These photographs were taken about 1.2m above the ridge-cap of the roof, which is how far the tripod extended.
From these I have created a somewhat dodgy
panoramaMore particularly, here is a full resolution
image (3.6MB) looking toward node HKPProblems
I'm in a bit of a hollow.
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