[HamGateNY] Welcome to HamGateNY

Wed Nov 11 21:16:53 EST 2020

Hello Mitch KE7WWT.

Without drooling too much, I just wanted to say that your extremely ambitious project(s) mirror my own interests in being able to "INTER-network" and converge these vital (and fun) communications technologies - voice, data/packet/digi, VoIP, APRS, RF, terrestrial, etc.

You guys up north may be some of the poorest counties in NYS, but down here in the rural Catskills we have some simar statistics too (just not ones to brag about.) I and a few dispersed others also have ambitious ideas that many surrounding us are either put off by or simply not interested in. And so while a few projects of communal interest are making some progress regionally (ex. Winlink, an ARES/RACES repeater, some APRS digipeaters and I-gates, etc.) others such as myself have been doing similar to you - trying to build it all ourselves out of shallow pockets and an even smaller lot of property.

I find your portable C&C center very interesting, and similar to my (thus far more) meager and slightly larger 12U rolling 19" rack case I've built for ARES and personal use. The entire idea of being able to congregate info from a multitude of sources and potentially do so two-way over range without the requirement of failable infrastructure is exactly what interests me as well (too many years of IT and EMS, including working in NYC before, during and after 9/11.) 

So while - with the exception of my SignaLink USB on HF - my setup is (mostly) analog so far, my goal as time and finances allow is to expand this into the exact same voice/packet INTER-networked type of set-up you have in mind, both stationary/base as well as portable.

I would definitely be interested in chatting as to where you are and where you see your next steps to be going, and if I can offer any assistance from my background I would be happy to do so - AND THAT OFFER GOES TO ANYBODY ELSE WHERE.

With regards to internet connectivity, TCP/IP, data and VoIP equipment, I have (home) business-grade internet with a 13 usable block of public IPs, as well as considerably more TCP/IP, VoIP and security equipment (Cisco, Ubiquiti, etc.) at the moment than I do Ham, so while I know TCP/IP is a heavy-overhead protocol, if any projects of interest have the need to (for example) convert an incoming RF analog voice or fax signal into TCP/IP to send out over the internet - or to use VoIP to link RFs at 2 locations over internet (sort of like EchoLink does,) those are some of the ideas I've been toying around with...

Enough for now. Glad to make everybody's acquaintance, and TTYS.

73 again,

Andrew J. McLeod, KB2AJM

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On Nov 11, 2020, 6:52 AM, at 6:52 AM, "Maurice A. Mitchell - KE7WWT" <maurice at maurice-mitchell.com> wrote:
>KE7WWT
>Jefferson County NY (North of Syracuse) located just a stone's throw
>away from the fence at Fort Drum.  Retired Army - 26 years, 7 months, 5
>days and 2 hours.
>
>I run the WINLINK Packet system and serve on the both ARES and RACES. 
>I am a DHS SHARES operator with ALE/Voice and HF RMS WINLINK.  I am
>also a MARS operator. 
>
>I start this project almost a year ago and thanks to changes dealing
>with COVID, I have ran out of time, but hope to have things change
>soon.  I wanted to use the 44Net as a way to combine, in one box or two
>(ammo cans) the ability to have a mobile/portable node that serves
>Broadband Hamnet, APRS I-GATE and digi, remote control of base station
>radios, DMR and maybe D-STAR hotspots, and of course the ability to
>link and interface Packet. 
>
>Jefferson and its surrounding counties (Saint Lawrence and Lewis) are
>the three poorest counties in the State, and as such, there is very
>little activity that requires expenditure of money.  As such, I have
>taken the "build it and they will come" mentality. In the end, it does
>not work - This is baofeng country.  Not a lot of hams, and not a lot
>of invested in the art and science of communications.  That said, I
>still want a method that can tie me into various networks to not only
>pull information, but also to share information for the benefit of a
>larger group.  I want something that is not internet-dependent, but is
>internet-enabled.  
>
>In the end. .  I need a lot of help.
>
>Mitch
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HamGateNY <hamgateny-bounces at n2nov.net> On Behalf Of Charles J.
>Hargrove
>Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 23:28
>To: hamgateny at n2nov.net
>Subject: Re: [HamGateNY] Welcome to HamGateNY
>
>So far we have seen introductions from:
>KA1NJL, K2JJT, WW2BSA, KB2AJM and AJ2A.
>
>How about the rest of this 92 person group?
>What is your set-up or what will it be?
>What software, hardware, services, etc?
>Let us all help each other to get things going.
>
>On 11/5/2020 11:06 AM, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:
>> Since the merger of the WNYPG mailing list into the HamGateNY list,
>we 
>> now have 87 members (some who were on both lists).  This would be a 
>> great opportunity to introduce yourselves.  Give us your callsign, 
>> what area of NY State (or outside of it), what kind of packet system 
>> you are running, etc.
>> Let's use this list as a request-for-help and sharing of 
>> knowledge/projects.
>> 
>> I will start:
>> - N2NOV
>> - Staten Island, NYC
>> - EmComm lead for ARES/RACES during 9/11, 2003 Blackout, etc
>> - Founder/President of NYC-ARECS (http://www.nyc-arecs.org)
>> - running JNOS system since 1998 starting on DOS and now Linux
>> - NY State 44Net/AMPR.org coordinator
>> - IT field since 1989 (databases, networking, help desk, web hosting)
>> - ran for Congress as a write-in twice 
>> (http://www.HargroveForCongress.us)
>> - Secretary of the Staten Island Libertarian Party
>> 
>
>--
>Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
>NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.
>
>NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 147.360/107.2 PL
>ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM
>NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM
>http://www.nyc-arecs.org
>
>NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on
>7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32
>
>"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the
>walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
>- Ronald Reagan
>
>"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
>
>"Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.)
>
>"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services
>it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald
>Reagan
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