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

[matti]

THANKS Lan!

Please spread the word folks, this should be a fun meeting :)

a bit swapped this week. - matti

--- On Wed, 7/13/11, Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com> wrote:

> From: Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com>
> Subject: [SGVLUG] JULY 7/14 Meeting Topic: GoFlex Net and APRS
> To: "sgvlug at sgvlug.net" <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 7:18 AM
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>