Transcript DRG-Annual-Report-2016

Michigan Section Digital
Radio Group
Annual Report
presented
March 5th, 2016
By: Jay Nugent WB8TKL
[email protected]
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Areas we will cover:
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Digital Technology “stuff”
What the Michigan AMPRnet once was
What the Michigan AMPRnet is now
What the Michigan AMPRnet needs to
accomplish
How will we get there?
Goals for 2016
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Digital Technology “stuff”
Various Domain Names
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MI-DRG.ORG – Paid for by WB8TKL (May)
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MI-ARRL.ORG – Renewed by WB8TKL (3/1)
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SectionOuting.Info – Paid for by WB8RCR
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MIARRLPRB1.ORG – Needed any longer?
(comes up for automatic renewal in July)
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“NEW AND IMPROVED” mi-drg.org website
(now AMPRnet and JNOS centric, only)
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What the Michigan
AMPRnet once was:
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What the Michigan AMPRnet once
was (cir. 2008-12)
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HamGates allow disperse
portions of the state network to
be interlinked via the Internet as
well as through RF links using
the TCP/IP protocols.
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70% of L.P. had an RF footprint
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With 22 HG and Key Stations
(EOC's, RedX, Staff) Email and
CONVerse traffic flowed daily
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Multiple CONVerse nets weekly
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DRG Reps met Quarterly
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Hamgates act as the “default
gateway” to the AMPRnet for a
county(ies) end users
Held “Packet Training” sessions
periodically
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So What Happened???????
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High cost of gas (was difficult getting attendance at meetings)
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Jay was $poor$ due to a lack of consulting gigs
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Jay was no longer doing ALL the work (encap updates, FW problems, etc.)
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Divorces, strokes, people moving away, loss of STATIC addresses, and/or having other
interests
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General lack of excitement within the ranks when they were no longer getting pumped
up by the Cheer Leading and Dog & Pony shows
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Lack of “sustainable” traffic to keep SysOps willing to keep their nodes up ($$$ vs
Benefits)
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PORTAL.AMPR.ORG was introduced and broke the system!!! We could no longer get
Hostname/DNS entries for stations and updating ENCAP was nearly impossible for
quite some time.
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SO THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG...YET AGAIN.
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What the Michigan
AMPRnet is now:
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What the Michigan AMPRnet is now
(cir. 2016)
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Hamgate.Washtenaw --- Operational
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Detroit.AMPR.org --- Operational
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Hamgate.Eaton --- Unreachable (Rpi) (FW issues?)
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Hamgate.Midland – “RCR: we have an issue with hg.mid”
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Hamgate.Ottawa --- “Inbound” Firewall issues
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Hamgate.Alcona --- Hard drive failure
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Emmett/Char/Cheboy --- (unknown/unreachable)
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Hamgate.Kent, Hamgate.LaPeer, SEOC
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FUTURE PLANNED: Hamgate.Monroe, Hamgate.Kalamazoo,
Hamgate.AnnArbor (WiFi)
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Only 15 subnets, 9 Hamgates in ENCAP, and
only 4 Hamgates are online (of sorts)
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route addprivate 44.102.168/24 encap 216.245.225.3
Hamgate.Antrim
Antrim
(not in service)
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route addprivate 44.102.166/24 encap 216.245.225.3
Hamgate.Antrim
Kalkaska
(not in service)
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route addprivate 44.102.170/23 encap 96.36.5.237
Emm/Char/Cheb
????
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route addprivate 44.102.216/23 encap 96.36.5.237
Emm/Char/Cheb
????
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route addprivate 44.102.132/24 encap 97.84.0.85
Hamgate.Ottawa
Ottawa
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route addprivate 44.102.24/24 encap 75.134.184.102
Hamgate.Livingston
Livingston
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route addprivate 44.102.200/22 encap 74.85.194.5
Hamgatye.Midland
Midland
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route addprivate 44.102.1/24 encap 23.115.92.204
Hamgate.Washtenaw
Washtenaw
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route addprivate 44.102.48/24 encap 23.115.92.204
Hamgate.Washtenaw
Wayne
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route addprivate 44.102.56/24 encap 23.115.92.204
Hamgate.Washtenaw
Monroe
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route addprivate 44.102.238/24 encap 75.133.38.102
Hamgate.Alcona
Alcona
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route addprivate 44.102.172/22 encap 96.36.5.237
Emm/Char/Cheb
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route addprivate 44.102.100/24 encap 75.75.220.86
Hamgate.Eaton
Eaton
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route addprivate 44.102.104/24 encap 75.75.220.86
Hamgate.Eaton
Ingham
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route addprivate 44.102.128/24 encap 44.102.128.1
Hamgate.Kent
Kent
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(not in service)
(not in service)
????
(not in service)
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What does the Michigan
AMPRnet need to
accomplish:
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The DRG needs to help promote:
The moving of bits from Point-A to Point-B
The moving of ICS Forms, EASILY
That we need more Hamgates (obviously)
That we need more End Users / Home Stations (ready pool
of trained operators and available hardware)
More Education in using OutPost, FLDIGI and FLMSG and
ICS Form templates
We need DRG Quarterly meetings
We need DEC's and EC's to integrate AMPRnet into their
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How will we get there???
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What's NEW that we didn't have then?
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We now have WB8RCR's Pidora-JNOS
package
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Ubiquiti & MikroTik RF routers are now
inexpensive ways of deploying MAN
networks (Metropolitan Area Network)
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BB-HAMNET (HSMM-Mesh) has left
WRT54G and migrated onto Ubiquiti
microwave router hardware
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MI6WAN uwave network across portions of
the State (44.103/19) as part of the CMEN
network of repeaters (HG backbone???)
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ARRL Table at the Livonia Swap
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DRG District Representatives
(Appointed by the DEC's)
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STAFF CHANGES:
D1 – Dennis Boone KB8ZQZ & Patrick Shannon W8LNO
D2 – Jay Nugent WB8TKL & (TBD)
D3 – (yet to be determined)
D5 – Ron Schubot N8CML & (TBD)
D6 – (yet to be determined)
D7 – Red Duggan WA8RLI & Ed Bassett N8FVM
D8 – (yet to be determined)
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Goals for 2016:
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Restore many of the defunct Hamgates plus add new ones
Fix what gets broken in the March 2016 DNS “Purge”
Train more users in the use of OutPost (incl ICS forms)
Train more users in the use of FLDIGI/FLMSG (incl ICS forms)
Promote more use of HSMM-Mesh, Ubiquiti, MikroTik, and WiFi
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Deploy more NetROM/X1J4 nodes, and Multi-ported nodes, for
better long-haul linking
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Continue migration to Multi-Layered networks and the use of
County/District/Regional “Local Access” frequencies
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Get more Clubs involved!!!! Go for the “Critical Mass”.
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Hold Quarterly DRG meetings (Cheerleading & Training)
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Thank You for your Participation!!!
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Submitted to the:
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ARRL Michigan Section Staff meeting
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March 5th, 2012
Lansing, Michigan
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By:
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Jay Nugent WB8TKL [email protected]
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[email protected]
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(734)484-5105
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Completely produced using Open Source software:
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“LibraOffice – Impress” on Fedora-18 Linux
“In a world without fences, who needs Gates!”
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Local Access Frequencies by District
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This proposal is a first attempt
to move away from a single
collision domain, and towards
a network based on
“Gateway” nodes. This
positions us to more easily
implement a “backbone”
connecting the Gateway
nodes.
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First published in Oct '05, a
few stations are already
appearing on the new
frequencies
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NOTE: This map is now out of
date
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Technical Milestones:
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WINLINK 2000
Deployment of “TelPac” code onto Hamgates still planned
RMS code currently undergoing Beta test
CMS “Failover” failed for several days
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CONVERSE BRIDGE NETWORK
Change in “Hierarchy Tree” still underway
Channel 911 used during Statewide events (S.E.T.)
Channel 411 being used during Skywarn events
Sat/Sun 8pm Channel-41 Nets still active
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NTSMI.ampr.org
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D1 D-Star Project
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$87,000 Grant
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Coordinated by Jon KC8VAB and Jim WB8AZP
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18 D-Star repeaters & 13 2820 rigs (for EOC's)
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2m & 440 repeater for each of the 9 counties
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All linked via the Internet
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Voice ONLY network, at this time
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DATA is yet to be determined
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S.E.T. - Lessons Learned
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145.76 is too congested!!!
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Work is underway to migrate more districts off 145.76 onto
other freqs.
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Too few Operators know how to use the Network!!!
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More training needs to be performed
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More daily use will help increase the number of trained
operators
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QMN Packet Network Decommissioning:
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The QMN Board of Directors voted to turn over
their Packet Radio assets to the DRG. The DAPR
group in Grand Rapids will be responsible for the
management of these assets per the conditions set
forth by the QMN in the agreement.
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FREQUENCY CHANGES:
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D1-South switching to 145.05
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D2-South (Wash/Wayne) switching to 147.58
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D2-North determining what freq to use
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D6 (RedCross.Kent) moving off 145.76 to yet to be
determined freq
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D6 & D7 have too many counties on 145.07 that will need
to be dealt with
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NOTE: Most of the above are in an effort to relieve
congestion in D1-North (SEOC) on 145.76
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MARC dropped support of 12 “Packet” frequencies
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Problem Areas and their Resolutions:
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EDUCATION!!!!!! - Fewer Hams understand Classic Packet than they
once did. Re-education of the Amateur public through DRG offered Training
Classes is necessary to re-build that wealth of operators we once had.
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Limited sharing of DRG material through the DEC's to their
EC's and others in their districts – It is hoped that the DRG Rep's and
the DEC's will filter down material from the DRG reflector to their EC's in hopes
of getting more involvement from the rank & file. Section Staff may assist in
helping to resolve this by pushing on the Leadership a wee bit.
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INTEGRATION!!! – In Many users do not understand TCP/IP.
In order for
users to provide “Integration”, we need to provide simple cookie-cutter solutions
and training classes to teach them about ethernets, routing, SMTP, POP3,
telnet, etc. in order to interconnect a Served Agencies network with the
Michigan AMPRnet.
NTSD – We need to develop “processes” that would allow users to pass NTS
traffic by addressing it to i.e. NTS@MINTSD and be assured an NTS operator
would pick up the traffic and move it to it's final destination.
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