[SGVLUG] JULY 7/14 Meeting Topic: GoFlex Net and APRS

[Lan Dang]

I'll give Matti a break and write up the reminder :)  It's been posted to the
Caltech calendar for a while, but the SGVLUG website needs to be updated
with this month's topic.

July Meeting: Thur 7/14/2011 (TOMORROW)

Time: 7-9pm
Location: Downs building, room 107, on the Caltech Campus in
Pasadena (while the campus address is technically
1200 California street, the campus is quite large. The Downs
building is across from the tennis courts on California at
Arden)


Topic:

APRS is a amateur radio network where small packets of data such as 
position reports, 

messages or telemetry are transmitted to other radio 
operators and eventually propagated 

to the Internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System

The proliferation of small, low power and easily hackable ARM devices opens up many 

possibilities for setting up unobtrusive computing solutions. 
Amateur radio operator and 

long time Linux user James McDuffie (K6JLM) 
explores using the Seagate GoFlex Net 

along with surplus amateur radio 
equipment to build a APRS digipeater for helping to 

relay packets both 
over RF and to the Internet. 
http://www.sgvlug.org


Lan