At a couple of the workshops I have attended, I have noticed that when installing a node in the FAB-Corp DCE10X8X3 box some of you will take the board out of the case and mount just the pc-board in the enclosure.  Usually a heat sink is added to the board.  I was told this was done for the heat.

What is a recommended source and part number for the heat sink?

The setups I am working on will be in the Texas heat and will be in a location where it is not exactly easy to physically get to them and I want to start off with the best chance of success.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

AE5CA

Hi,

I have been playing with adhoc meshes using HSMM-MESH (now BBHN) for a couple years now here in Honolulu Hawaii. There are a couple of us who have multi-nodal systems. We have set up networks around town, participating in field day and emergency exercises.

I encourage everyone in Hawaii to join us here on this forum to share your interest and experiences, and to use us as elmers. Outer island hams are especially welcomed as well as our global ham friends.

I have a 6 six node system running at my QTH over looking Waikiki, all under solar pv/battery power. Because of our mountainous environment we need more experimenters to come online to either connect via high gain antennas or VPN via Internet gateways.

I am more than happy to help anyone enter is exciting new aspect to amateur radio!

Aloha 73 de kh6tz

Wayne

I cant seem to forward ports in V1.0.0 to the WiFi interface, seems to be locked on the WAN port.

Is this broken or do I need to roll back to 0.4.3?

In my app, I need to forward ports to the WIFI interface...

What did I miss?

Hi Guys;

Got both routers Linksys Wrt54G converted and running with the new firmware 1.0, asigned callsigns Kp4rv-1 and kp4rv-2 hitted mesh status at the menu, from kp4rv-1 and saw the other node kp4rv-2, How is connect the other node and be able to communicate with it, I do not see like a area to have a contact keyboard to Keyboard, I'm a little lost or confused, somebody let me know how works?

God Bless!

KP4RV - Rafael

Puerto Rico 

Hi Guys;

Got both routers Linksys Wrt54G converted and running with the new firmware 1.0, asigned callsigns Kp4rv-1 and kp4rv-2 hitted mesh status at the menu, from kp4rv-1 and saw the other node kp4rv-2, How is connect the other node and be able to communicate with it, I do not see like a area to have a contact keyboard to Keyboard, I'm a little lost or confused, somebody let me know how works?

God Bless!

KP4RV - Rafael

Puerto Rico 

FYI, the svn repository has been open for quite some time.  Everything you need to build the firmware (for the wrt54g-ish routers) is contained within.  It is simply the OpenWRT ImageBuilder package with the complete set of changes that turn it into Broadband Hamnet.

73
ad5oo

I am a longtime DD-WRT user on Linksys routers, primarily the WRT54X* series... first off, the best place to initiate the power cycling for a full reset is the router end of the power cord, not the wall end... it's a quicker power off and on for the router...

as for the issue with Firefox? I have had that as well, FF can be kinda flaky at times, but usually closing it, waiting 30 seconds gets it, if not try (YUCK!) I.E.... also, you may and often do have to disable your computer's firewall temporarily... (I know I sure have) also be sure you change to the new network if needed while it is rebooting and making changes (I've missed that one a few times myself)

lastly? check the router you have... make sure that if you are trying to change the firmware to a different type, like from DD-WRT to Tomato, or OPEN-WRT, that you are aware of the flash and ram sizes... some versions of the router really need for you to go to the "Mini" or "Micro" versions so that there is room in the flash to load the new firmware... if not, they will fail every time, and sometimes brick... (mainly the ones with 4MBFlash, 8MB RAM) I tend to try to stick with the ones with 8/32 and use the Mega builds...

Seannon KD4IYI

This is a non-issue with my solution. Please feel free to drop me an email and you will get detailed instructions on how to do.

sm7i.ham@gmail.com

At the same time I would like to try and establish tunneling between SM7 and anyone in the US. Are there anyone up for this ?

Hello to those interested,

After waiting for about a year with all the equipment in my house, I finally decided to get my node up and running.

I have a stand alone WRT54G remote node currently up at 22ft in the city of Tamarac near the Intersections of Nob Hill Rd and McNab Rd.  For now, It's only transmitting the 19db that the Linksys router allows and have a 14dbi Rootenna directional facing East and a 14dbi TP Link omnidirectional up vertically. I am using a WRT54GS v2 as a primary operating node in my house and a couple spares to link with it and to in the coming days, learn more of what I can do with it.

I plan and want to do more with this and hoping by making the first move, I may find a few others willing to get involved with Submit this near me.  If nothing else, I would like to start finding other MESH operators, I especially hope to find some IT guys who are hams and have a better understanding of the operating systems that can reach out to for guidance. 

Feel free to contact me on this post, I had asked the webmaster for this and how it brings some from my general area into this so that we could possible work together in something which many hams don't seem to have the patience or understanding of it's potential...

Gary KI4WPI

Tamarac, FL

If you need access to the serial ports on the router, AE5AE is absolutely correct, but, there are other ways to access the router, you should be able to access it via command line. If in Linux, use SSH from the terminal... if in Windows, you can use a terminal emulator like PuTTY and access it via SSH as well... (PuTTY can also be gotten for Linux and I believe OSX as well)

Seannon KD4IYI

Later on this week a few people are getting together at a local part to put together our first local ARES node net. I have a laptop and a usb webcam. So here are my questions for any and all.

1> what software do you run for USB webcams [not ipcams] to allow other nodes/people access? [still shots or live stream?]

2> How did you add a link to the server services so that it's clickable for some one else at another location?  Did you make a home portal web page and point them to a new IP:port address? Did you change the mesh code to have a link in services?

3> Do you have a demo showing your node/webcam up online? Like youtube or your own site?

Thanks.

J.

EDIT: i'm not using version 1.0 as most people who are bringing nodes have not reflashed them yet. But i'm using 0.4.3