LandOps Cuddeback Dry Lake January 17, 2015 Communications Plan

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1 LandOps Cuddeback Dry Lake January 17, 2015 Communications Plan 1. Cuddeback Dry Lake is located in the northern Mojave Desert, approximately midway between Barstow and Ridgecrest, CA at an elevation of approximately 2500 MSL. The lakebed is approximately 6 miles long and 2-1/2 miles wide at its widest point. The area is bounded by the Black Hills to the north, the Grass Valley Wilderness to the east, Fremont Peak to the south, and U.S. Hwy 395 to the west. Base camp for this operation will be located at , on level ground approximately 4 miles northeast of the lakebed and adjacent to the Grass Valley Wilderness at an elevation of about The ground slopes down toward the dry lakebed except that there are low hills of about 3300 elevation (about 300 higher than the surrounding terrain) midway between base camp and the dry lakebed. 2. The weather forecast for January 17 anticipates partly cloudy skies. Winds will be light. No precipitation is forecast. High temperatures will be in the low 60s, low temps will be in the low 30s. (In January, normal high temps are about 60ºF. Normal low temps are about 35ºF). Sunrise on January 17 will be at 1457 UTC (0657 PST). Sunset will be at 0102 UTC (1702 PST). There will be a crescent moon. Moonrise will be at 1158 UTC (0358 PST). Moonset will be at 2232 UTC (1432 PST). 3. Primary communications will be voice on 2m ham band and FRS. Additional communications will utilize APRS, 2.4 ghz broadband mesh network and light signals.

2 4. Voice frequency assignments: Frequency/Channel Comments TAC (S) Net Control (Primary) TAC (S) Net Control (Alternate) TAC (S) Alpha Team - Internal TAC (S) Bravo Team - internal TAC (S) Spare TAC (S) Spare TAC (S) Overwatch & Comm teams TAC (S) Film crew TAC (S) Spare TAC 11 FRS 1-0 Alpha Team - Internal TAC 12 FRS 2-0 Bravo Team - internal TAC 13 FRS 3-0 Spare TAC 14 FRS 4-0 Spare TAC (-) W6FXJ Table Mountain repeater TAC (-) WA6YBN Randsburg repeater TAC (-) WI6RE WIN System Ridgecrest repeater 5. Net control will be located at basecamp ( ) 6. Net control will commence operation at 0000 UTC Jan 16 (1600 PST Jan 15). Net control will monitor TAC 1 and TAC Crossband repeater. If necessary, a crossband repeater will be established vicinity of , (on hilltop approximately 2 miles SW of base camp). 8. APRS The nearest permanent digipeater site is near Ridgecrest, therefore we do not expect to have APRS connectivity to the outside world from the area of operations.

3 9. Broadband Mesh will utilize mesh firmware version SSID: BroadbandHamnet-20-V3. Mesh nodes will be located at basecamp ( ). The location of other mesh nodes will be determined after arrival at the area of operations based on the number of mesh nodes available for this operation. Tentative locations are as follows: Alias Node ID Type Location Comments Bravo-1 Omni Base Camp Bravo-2 KI6MLU-2 Directional Base Camp Aimed at Charlie Charlie-1 Omni , Charlie-2 Directional , Aimed at Bravo Delta , Fremont Peak Echo , Grass Valley Wilderness Foxtrot , Grass Valley Wilderness Golf , Red Mtn Russ-1 KI6MLU-1 Omni Mobile Russ-3 KI6MLU-3 Directional Mobile Russ- KJ7A-mobile Mobile webcam 10. Local Wi-Fi access points to connect Wi-Fi enabled devices such as laptops and smartphones to the broadband mesh will be established at base camp and possibly at other locations, subject to the availability of Wi-Fi equipment. The local Wi-Fi access points will use b/g/n protocol. Location SSID Comments Base Camp LandOps-Base Mobile LandOps-Mobile-1 In Russ Jeep Fixed Linksys

4 11. Connecting to the Mesh Network. You may access mesh applications by connecting a laptop, a tablet or a smartphone to the mesh network: a. Connect the laptop, tablet or smartphone to the mesh network via a CAT5 Ethernet cable or via one of the local Wi-Fi access points. b. Test the connection by opening a web browser and entering the following URL: If successful, you will see a node status screen. If cannot open the status screen, the node may be down, or the node may have reached the limit of connections it can support. See the node owner for help in troubleshooting the problem. c. On the Node Status screen, click the Mesh Status button. The Local Hosts, Current Neighbors and Remote Nodes list the mesh nodes and services that are accessible. The Previous Neighbors lists the nodes that are offline or are out of range. 12. Broadband Mesh applications are to be determined after arrival at the area of operations based on the number of application servers available for this operation. Tentative applications are as follows: Application URL Comments (Russ) Login: LandOps Pswd: [blank] (John) Login: visitor Pswd: visitor (Jim) Login: Admin Pswd: [blank] (Other) WebMail See below for login names & pswds IRC irc://ki6mlu-webmail:6667 No login required Doc Library No login required FTP server VOIP server Printer

5 13. Webmail. Connect to the Mesh Network (see above) a. On the Mesh Status screen, click the link for KI6MLU-Webmail. If the link doesn t work, enter the following URL: b. At the Login prompt, enter a valid login name: Net_Control Alpha Team Bravo Team Overwatch_One Overwatch_Two Mobile Comms Special Comms Film Crew c. The password for every login is passw0rd (the number 0; the password is case sensitive) d. When finished sending/reading your , click the Logout button and close the web browser to clear the session cookie. 14. IRC. Connect to the Mesh Network (see above) and start your IRC client (ie, Chatzilla, Relay, X-Chat Aqua, etc.) a. Connect to the IRC server: :6667 b. Join #LandOps