Field Installation Began Friday, 21 August 2009, and continued through Thursday, August 27th. Layer 42 42 X Install 10' mast and antenna X Install, configure ...

Choice of radio technology The consensus in our meetings seems to be that we possess inadequate expertise to make an informed decision on which band or technology ...

Bootable Live CD/DVD Development This page is a summary of discussion from the mail list about how to make and what to put on bootable Live CD/DVD media that would ...

California OES Alerts from EDIS SVWUX now has a mail list which forwards alerts from the California Office of Emergency Services (OES). It was already possible to ...

Calculating Beam Width The question came up during the November 6, 2008 SVWUX meeting about how to calculate the beam width in miles at a given distance and angle ...

SVWUX Charter Purpose The Silicon Valley Wireless Users Experimenters (SVWUX) is a technical hobby club of individuals based in Silicon Valley, California interested ...

SVWUX Policies and Rules SVWUX Charter The SVWUX Charter is the first and ultimate policy. It contains the definition of what SVWUX is and the basic infrastructure ...

Contact All new contact with SVWUX should be initiated through Craig Anderson who will forward as needed to the appropriate officer. Officers Elected officers ...

Project Decision Log This area attempts to document the project decision ladder so that as conditions change, decision history can be reviewed and revised as appropriate ...

Layer 0 2 Deployment Equipment build out of the EWN. If you have any of the following surplus that you care to contribute (501c3) to the project, please contact Andrew ...

SVWUX November 2006 Coordinator Election The election for SVWUX's Coordinator for the 2007 calendar year will be held according to the schedule on this page. If any ...

SVWUX E mail Lists This was transferred from SIGs:SvwuxCharterDiscussion where ChrisVerges proposed it. IanKluft 12 May 2006 SVWUX mail lists List ...

ERP/EIRP Calculator At various points, SVWUX members may need to calculate the ERP/EIRP values of different antennae and transmit powers. This calculator, taken from ...

FCC Rules Purpose FCC rules and regulations are often misunderstood and misquoted. To aid in clarifying a lot of the misconceptions surrounding them in regards to ...

Hands On Activity Upcoming Events TBA Ongoing Experiments are ongoing in becoming IPv6 capable and getting various services and apps working over IPv6 in preparation ...

How to donate to SVWUX SVWUX is organized as a Special Interest Group of the South Bay Community Network, Inc, a 501(c)3 non profit California corporation. The corporation ...

Setting up a Client What is a client? In the SVWUX network design, a client is an end node that does not have an alternate means to connect to the Internet. Clients ...

Setting up a Gateway What is a gateway? In the SVWUX network design, a gateway is an end node that shares a locally connected Internet connection with other users ...

What EWN means to businesses Businesses have their own contingency plans for disasters and their own means, personnel and equipment for dealing with them, often much ...

What EWN means to Amateur Radio Amateur Radio operators have a right to be proud of their historic contributions to emergency communications over the past century ...

What EWN means to RACES ARES/RACES drills quickly teach an appreciation for efficient traffic handling. Net control operators routinely sing songs of happiness when ...

Introduction to the EWN The motivation to build an EWN comes from several directions. Select which audience you belong to for the adoption case in your realm. Amateur ...

Log of Connection Tests 11 November 2009 LGH to St Garage rooftop, Mountain View 18 dBi panel to identical panel, 15 miles, 18 dBm out at one end, 26 dBm at the ...

SVWUX Logo Ideas This page is a collection of ideas for a logo for SVWUX. Ideas from Heather Stern These images are of Heather Stern's sketches taken with a cellcam ...

Los Gatos Hills Site This page catalogs the status and todo list for our Los Gatos Hills repeater site. Status Our Los Gatos Hills site is on private property at ...

SVWUX Meeting Information Time 1st Thursdays of the month from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. The room we usually use at Google has conference call in capability. If for some ...

December 6, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Heather Stearn, Ian Kluft, Carl Reisinger, Joe Castellano, Pat Buder, Daniel ...

SVWUX Meeting Summary from May 4, 2006 These minutes were recorded and posted by Chris Verges. May 4, 2006 (Thursday) The May SVWUX meeting was held on May 4, 2006 ...

June 1, 2006 Meeting Minutes These minutes were recorded and posted by Chris Verges. Meeting Attendees Chris Verges, Ian Kluft, Heather Stern, Jim Dennis, T.R. Fullhart ...

July 12, 2006 Meeting Minutes These minutes were recorded by Craig A. and posted by Chris V. Meeting Attendees Chris Verges, Heather Stern, Ian Kluft, T.R. Fullhart ...

August 9, 2006 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Chris Verges, Tim Utschig, Bill Dale, Al Whaley, Mustafa Mussain, William Estrada, Craig Anderson, John Amos, Andreas ...

September 7, 2006 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Chris Verges, John Amos, Tim Utschig, William Estrada, Heather Stern, Jim Dennis, Ian Kluft Old Business All ...

October 5, 2006 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Craig Anderson Ian Kluft Heather Stern Tim Utschig Old Business Voting on emergency network ...

November 2, 2006 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Chris Verges, Tim Utschig, Heather Stern, Ian Kluft and Sean Lynch Old Business Summary of the SJSU Radio Club ...

December 7, 2006 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Craig Anderson, Tim Utschig, Heather Stern, Ian Kluft, Sean Lynch, Mustafa Hussain, Ralph Fowler, Everett Palmer ...

January 4, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Mustafa Hussain, Ian Kluft, Heather Stearn, William Estrada, Sean Lynch, John Amos, Bill Dale, Brad Douglas, Craig ...

Febrruary 1, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Ian Kluft, Heather Stearn, William Estrada, Bill Dale, Brad Douglas, Craig Anderson, Everett Palmer, Carl Reisinger ...

March 1, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Ian Kluft, Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Everett Palmer, ??, ?? (very sorry, I missed names) Old Business Joint Venture ...

April 5, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Mustafa Hussain, Heather Stearn, Dave ?, Daniel ? (sorry, I keep missing names ...

May 3, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Ian Kluft, David ?, Al ?, Lowell Gordy, Brad Douglas, ?, ? Old Business There have been ...

June 7, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Heather Stearn, Bill Dale, T.R Fullheart, Craig Anderson, Micheal Cheselka, Pat Buder, Lowell Gordy, Daniel Old Business ...

SVWUX July 5, 2007 Meeting Summary Attendees: Ian Kluft KO6YQ Daniel Gimpelevich Brad Douglas KB8UYR Pat Barthelow AA6EG Cliff Skolnick N1DPH ...

August 2, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Heather Stearn, Ian Kluft, Andreas Ott, Brad Douglas, Raphael Skodlar, Ralph ...

November 1, 2007 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Heather Stearn, Ian Kluft, Brad Douglas, Chris Swartout, Carl Reisinger, ...

January 3, 2008 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Heather Stearn, Ian Kluft, Joe Castellano, Mark Cohen, Steve Evening's Discussion ...

March 6, 2008 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Heather Stearn, Ian Kluft, Warren Turkal, Rachel, Owen De Long, Dave, Dan, Pat ...

August 7, 2008 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Heather Stern, Bill Moffitt, Ian Kluft, Warren Rachel Turkal, Tim Utsich, Ed Cherlin ...

December 10, 2008 Meeting Minutes Meeting Attendees Attendees: Craig Anderson, Bill Dale, Ian Kluft, Carl Reisinger, Andy Brown, Joe Castellano, Heather Stearn, Dave ...

SVWUX meeting 4/9/2009 Andy introduced a new meeting methodology, capturing objectives, questions, and action items Our overall objective is to be able to ...

June 11, 2009 Meeting Minutes Range Test Report: Results of last Saturday's test was discussed but already covered in a previous email, minus my lessons learned. ...

August 14, 2009 Meeting Summary Reported on results of L42 SJCEOC test and upcoming build schedule. SJCEOC has allowed us to move our current dish and future ...

EWN Mission FAQ The Mission of the Santa Clara Emergency Wireless Network SCEWN What are we trying to do? Who is our customer? We have several layers of customers ...

Mountain View EOC Status Mountain View has an active ARES group that is very interested in SVWUX progress and potential participation. A sight evaluation was performed ...

Network FAQ Do we need an amateur radio ("ham") licence to communicate with the EWN? No, but you really really ought to at least consult someone who does. SVWUX ...

The Santa Clara Emergency Wireless Network Functional Objectives of SCEWN A. To provide wireless multi megabit IP pathways between the following, sorted by tier ...

SVWUX Wireless Network Topology Topology The EWN will be a long range 802.11b/g/n broadband terrestrial microwave network connecting service nodes such as EOC's and ...

Networking Resources IPv6 EWN is intended to support IPv6 as soon as possible so all nodes can be completely routable. In anticipation of that, SVWUX is advocating ...

Presentations Purpose and Copyright/Use Information The presentations listed on this page cover various topics of interest to SVWUX. SVWUX reserves all rights, privileges ...

Project Management How you can contribute: i. Look in Hot Zone for questions you can help answer or action items you can help complete. i. Post to the email ...

Quick Info Box This SVWUX news box is intended to be included in other pages. Quick Info Next Meeting Thursday, March 11 @ 7:30pm Location: Electric ...

SVWUX 802.11b/g Repeater Configuration Currently, our "repeaters" are actually full network POP's; e.g. a router with several 802.11 radios in bridge mode and possibly ...

Santa Clara City EOC to Layer 42 This page catalogs the status and todo list for our Santa Clara EOC to Layer 42 link build. (X completed Nov 17) Layer 42 Andy ...

EWN Site Directory Active Sites Site Name Band Device dBm dBi Vector Coordinates Los Gatos Hills g Linksys OpenWRT ...

Making EWN Site Recommendations The EWN seeks to carefully catalog and map all site proposals so we can move on them at the most strategic place and time. This catalog ...

Site Surveys Photos from various potential node sites to potential targets. SJCEOC to Layer 42 Layer 42 lies between the left smoke stack and the tall tree further ...

Social Networks These are ways of getting in contact with other SVWUX participants. Networking sites operated by SVWUX Email List The most active channel for SVWUX ...

SVWUX Sponsors The following companies and individuals have generously sponsored one or more SVWUX projects through various donations or involvement: $ Layer 42 ...

Craig Anderson's To Do List This is to keep track of all the things that have been left for him to do so he doesn't have to sort through all his emails trying to figure ...

Craig Anderson's To Do List This is to keep track of all the things that have been left for him to do so he doesn't have to sort through all his emails trying to figure ...

42 View toward SJCEOC from Layer42 rooftop. We believe it is over the building in foreground and between the two sets of trees. View towards Alum Rock ...

Survey of San Jose Water tank sites Craig Anderson and Andy Brown checked out several water tower sites June 12, 2009, at Regnart Canyon, Upper North side and Alum ...

What is SVWUX? SVWUX is a club for enthusiasts of data networking using wireless technologies, providing a forum for discussion and innovation. It is a Special Interest ...

See also the faster WebTopicList

General Information About SVWUX How to donate Activity Lists Meeting Information Social Networks Hands On Events SCEWN Network ...

This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this SVWUX web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to come ...

nop SVWUX Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the SVWUX web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can ...

SVWUX's nop SVWUX web /view/SVWUX The nop SVWUX web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World.

Statistics for nop SVWUX Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save ...

See also the verbose WebIndex.

WiFi Routing Config by Ian Here's the configuration used by Ian Kluft KO6YQ to route WiFi to a cell modem for SVWUX meetings. Some firewall settings are necessary ...

Wiki Access Instructions The SVWUX Wiki access control is managed by Slauth, the SBAY Local Authentication System software which allows mail list users to self register ...

Wireless Resources Local Downloads Resources Resource Description ERP Calculator \ An online calculator that helps compute ERP/EIRP values ...