<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Most importantly, thanks to you Barry for organising the MW part of this event !!!</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>sanbar <sandbar@ozemail.com.au></b></font>
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">24/11/2002 10:38 PM</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Ey everyone,<br>
Those unable to attend yesterday's installfest and antenna hack day<br>
missed a pretty good day.<br>
Overall we had about 30+ people attend, with heaps of traffic from the<br>
LUV crowd stopping by and having a look at what we were doing. Some were<br>
even interested in what Melbourne Wireless was all about.<br>
Overall, only about five cantennas were hacked. There were a number of<br>
Pac Mono and conifer Galaxy antennas brought along, but none were<br>
modded.<br>
Three access points were set up for the day: a hacked 802.11b AP in a<br>
diecast box using PoE, and attached to a 12dBi homebrew omni, an 802.11a<br>
AP, and an 802.11b AP on an 8dBi Superpass(?) set up by a small faction<br>
with a tent and loud house music at the far end of the hockey field.<br>
Not much was done in the way of practical field testing. One of the more<br>
interesting things to come out of the day was that bouncing a cantenna<br>
off a Galaxy grid (see pix at<br>
http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/media/photos/index.ttml?dir=meetings/2002-11-23_Installfest) resulted in impressive gain, particularly if the cantenna was offset.<br>
A G3 allowed anyone daring enough to upgrade their Orinoco-based cards<br>
to 128-bit WEP, while a notebook allowed people to flash their cards<br>
with the latest Enterasys firmware. An attempt to set up a SpeakFreely<br>
server wasn't all that successful.<br>
Although on the outside it appears that not much was achieved, the day<br>
was a lot of fun.<br>
Thanks go to Andrew Griffiths for his ability to tie an interesting mix<br>
of working and troublesome equipment together as the need arose through<br>
the day. Thanks to ProFX for the ftp server, backing up AndrewG, and for<br>
remembering to bringing Puffy along, without which the day would have<br>
been a little less interesting. Thanks to TC for his unparalleled<br>
barbecue tekniq, catering, and provision of the main server. Tom, Robert<br>
and (unknown) for the access points. Tom again and Stewart for the<br>
switches (these were vital after we were told two other externally<br>
provided switches were unavailable). Stewart, Troy, Timshel, Ryan, Nick<br>
and Vaskos for all the bits and bobs.<br>
Special thanks also has to got to Kim Perkins, the sysadmin at<br>
Strathcona, for letting us use the venue at no charge. We collected a<br>
bit of money through donations and the barbecue, which Melbourne<br>
Wireless will donate to the school to help it cover its costs.<br>
Again, the event was extremely worthwhile and heaps of fun. Let's do it<br>
again sometime.<br>
- Barry<br>
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