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OWNER: jonathan [2]
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
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 panorama [3]
More particularly, here is a full resolution image [4] (3.6MB)
looking toward node HKP
PROBLEMS
I'm in a bit of a hollow.
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/nodes/view?id=IWB
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/users/?jonathan
[3]
http://members.optusnet.com.au/jonathan_rabbitt/melbournewireless/panorama.jpg
[4]
http://members.optusnet.com.au/jonathan_rabbitt/melbournewireless/img_4141.jpg
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