Last night, July 29, from 8:30 PM through 10:00 PM we enthralled twenty five to thirty amateur radio people at the Utah Ham Fest for the Rocky Mountain Division Conference; taking place at Ruby's Inn at the gateway to Bryce Canyon

In keeping with the conference theme "Continuing the Pioneer Spirit of Amateur Radio" Chuck Killian, WB6YOK and Gerald Hasty AD7QF explained and demonstrated HSMM-MESH as another tool in our box for extending the capabilities for Amateur Radio.  A short listing of the mesh services witnessed:

Telephone calls were made and received through ASTERISK, the open source telephony projects.

Video over IP.

A web page serving SPLAT!, terrestrial RF path analysis, optimized for mesh usage.

SquirrelMail, to provide web eMail services for nuts over the mesh.

Desktop VNC control from one machine to another, again through the mesh.

Audience access to the mesh through an in the room bridge.

New interest was definitely created through the presentation and this continues the success of HSMM-MESH's utilization as another tool in the amateur radio operator’s tool kit.

Hi Brian, 

  When I clicked on upload image, it gave me this error message. "The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform. "

  I was using firmware bin file hsmm-mesh-0.4.3-wrt54g.bin. 

  Thanks!

  Lot / k6irf

I haven't touched base in a few months with David, W2LNX. But he has both, and has intentions of doing a side-by-side evaluation. He was at Dayton, demoing both.

I have a node in Riverton.  It would be interesting to see if we could get the Murray, South Jordan and Riverton nodes linked up.  I suspect this would take a central (hub) node of some height though.  Most nodes at valley level will be blocked by trees and buildings.

I've got a few of them, but it will at least another month before I break them out and start testing them. I've got commitments to coding a couple firmware modes and ensuring I've got cross-band routing/bridging working correctly on 2.4GHZ/5.8GHz before I dig into 5MHz channels on 70cms.

I've got the Xagyl version which isn't compatible with the Doodle Labs cards.  The Xagyls are still available.  I'm pretty sure the Doodle Labs cards were a one-time deal.

Hi Guys, 

  I am following the firmware installation instruction guide. I bought the router on Ebay 

 WRT54G v3.1 . When I access the web interface using 192.168.1.1, it would show 

OpenWrt Firmware

Kamikaze (r18961)

Load 0.28 0.13 0.05

Host Name  OpenWrt

Can I still load the HSMM-MESH firmware? 

Thanks!

Lot / k6irf

I am new to hsmm, and am having some issues.  I have three wrt54 routers that I just flashed with .4.3 without problems.  I can get to the config and status screens OK on windows laptops connected to each one.  But, the nodes do not see each other.  They see a local wifi in the shack, and a separate laptop sees each node fine.  Ssid is set to HSMM-MESH on them.  I can provide more info, but am having a hard time leaving messages here, this is the fourth attempt with a third computer, an iPad this time.

Thanks & 73. Terry, wb4jfi