BayCon 2016 Bay-Net Radio Conference

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1 BayCon 2016 Bay-Net Radio Conference Welcome George Zafiropoulos KJ6VU

2 Topics Event Logistics Bay-Net Radio Un-Club Activities Repeater System

3 Program 9:30 Morning sessions Repeater system and un-club update - George KJ6VU Introduction to 10 GHz microwave rig building - David KI6CLA Intro to System Fusion & DV4Mini AP - David KI6ZHD & Jason K6DGN 11:45 Lunch break 12:30 Afternoon sessions Intro to digital HF modes (RTTY, PSK, OLIVIA, JT65) - David KI6ZHD Setting up your own ham radio blog - Dean KK6BIO Building an APRS box with a Raspberryi Pi - Ed W6ELA SDR for complete beginners - Beric K6BEZ VHF & microwave contesting - Jim N9JIM Receiving weather satellite images using SDR - Pieter KK6VXV 4:30 Grand prize raffle & mingle

4 Special Thanks To Our Speakers David KI6CLA David KI6ZHD Jason K6DGN Dean KK6BIO Ed W6ELA Beric K6BEZ Jim N9JIM Pieter KK6VXV Colin AI6BH securing our venue Lauren - Plug-And-Play Will Jourdain, KI4VXF Icom America Our Event Volunteers Rich Timpa Jason Howard Beric Dunn Jon Linthacum Andrea Donderi Alex Perez Charles Hodgkins Pieter Noordhuis Neil Katin Tim Fairbairn Vladimir Rytikov Wayne Tom David Witkowski Colin Constable Mike Yamamoto

5 Where Am I??? Mathilda 101 STARBUCKS Lawrence Exp Plug-and-Play UnaMas ToGo s St. Johns Central Expressway

6 Plug-And-Play Tech Center Startup accelerator Currently >350 startups >300 corporate partners >180 venture capital partners

7 Event Sponsors Bay-Net Members

8 WiFi Access SSID BayCon2016 Password cqcqcqdx #BAYCON2016

9 Meeting Logistics Take breaks when you need them Stay in the area Bathroom down the hall Coffee, Donuts, Water, Soda for sale

10 Raffle Tickets are $1 See Wayne W6WAT Buy many tickets (better odds!) Drawings throughout the day Grand prize Icom ID-51A Plus

11 Free Stuff Table Take what you will actually use

12 Guest Appearance by Cale Nelson K4CDN

13 Topics Event Logistics Bay-Net Radio Un-Club Activities Repeater System

14 Bay-Net By the Numbers Bay-Net >230 members 7 th Annual Bay-Net meeting 6 repeaters at 2 radio sites 4 Conventional FM repeaters D-STAR repeater System Fusion repeater 5 Nets per week (Red Cross, 2m SSB, Fusion, etc) 3 Big Events: Field Day, Pacificon, BayCon 2 Weekly news feeds: AR NewsLine, ARRL audio news 2 Served organizations: American Red Cross, FEMA USAR

15 Bay-Net Fun Facts Started by NCCRA The Cactus Intertie for Nor Cal Bay-Net Financial support System owners Cactus Intertie Member donations Now a 501(c)3 Tax Exempt Organization

16 Board George Zafiropoulos KJ6VU David Witkowski W6DTW John Best KJ6K Special Project Ninjas D-Star system - Rich KC6OBJ Yaesu Fusion Repeater David KI6ZHD Field Day David W6DTW Data network David KI6ZHD, Jim N9JIM Fusion Net & Video Jason K6DGN Repeater system George KJ6VU

17 We are a 501(c)3 Tax-Exempt Organization - We will gladly take your money - Donations are tax deductable - Qualify for matching donations Expenses - Rent & insurance - Backup power system - New repeater equipment - New antennas

18 Topics Event Logistics Bay-Net Radio Un-Club Activities Repeater System

19 Radio Mala First Repeater In Nepal Radio Mala is the sister system of Bay-Net Vision of Suresh Ojha W6KTM Bay-Net volunteers helped build, tested and ship the system Installed at Tribhuvan University by Dr. Sanjeeb Panday 9N1SP 2m Repeater, Sierra Radio controller, IRLP/EchoLink computer

20 Repeater Site Work Party Repeater Site Work Party

21 Field Day

22 PACIFICON Pacificon

23 Antenna Projects PackTenna portable HF antenna Built a bunch of antennas All sold out Still have some parts CobWebb HF antenna John KJ6K built prototype Found all parts sources Need to make a group buy

24 Beric K6BEZ designed a low cost antenna analyzer Several kits were made How about a new club project? Lets make another batch!

25 Activities for 2016 Current Activities Field Day (June) Pacificon (October) Nets - Red Cross, Fusion, 2m SSB New Activities for 2016 Group build projects SOTA / trail operating Go to the park operating events What else?

26 Topics Event Logistics Bay-Net Radio Un-Club Activities Repeater System

27 Bay-Net Repeater System D-Star System Fusion

28 Black Mountain Coverage

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30 East Bay Hills Coverage

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32 Bay-Net Black Mountain East Bay Hills Repeater System Fusion D-STAR Repeater Repeater Repeater Repeater Repeater Control Control System System Internet Gateway Control Modem Control System Internet Link Gateway Radio Computer IRLP 3802 EchoLink Computer Control System Link Radio Control System Link Radio Bay-Net IRLP Reflector 9096 EchoLink *WW6BAY* Remote Users and Nodes Internet Black Mountain Cactus Repeater Repeater Link Radio Control Control System System Cactus Intertie Crystal Peak

33 FM Repeater System Update Upgrading to new Motorola CDM1550 Radios More backup power Upgrade site monitoring system

34 Tips For Using The Analog FM Repeaters Bee-Boop is actually unkey telemetry Bee-Boop only comes out the port in your direction No bee-boop means that repeater is off link Placing an IRLP connection # Connects to IRLP node 1234 # 0 0 A Connects to EchoLink node # Disconnects Always announce yourself when controlling the system

35 Bay-Net IRLP & Echolink Bay-Net IRLP Reflector 9096 Bridge Bay-Net Echolink Conference *WW6BAY* Bay-Net Repeaters Other Repeaters Echolink Clients RPT RPT Echo Link

36 D-STAR Digital System Update D-STAR repeater Normally connected to REF001 C Adding 1.2 GHz digital data module (TCP/IP) More training classes this year Managed by Rich KC6OBJ

37 Get registered here at BayCon See Rich, KC6OBJ Registration

38 System Fusion Digital System Update Dual Mode: Analog / C4FM Digital Analog users should run PL Decode Currently stand-alone- Internet linking planned Managed by David KI6ZHD Stay tuned for more

39 TCP/IP Data Network 3.4 GHz point to point link between sites 3.4 GHz downlink 1.2 GHz D-STAR DD downlink New sites planned Managed by David KI6ZHD & Jim N9JIM

40 How Can I Help??? Be active Donate Volunteer Lead an activity

41 Program 9:30 Morning sessions Repeater system and un-club update - George KJ6VU Introduction to 10 GHz microwave rig building - David KI6CLA Intro to System Fusion & DV4Mini AP - David KI6ZHD & Jason K6DGN 11:45 Lunch break 12:30 Afternoon sessions Intro to digital HF modes (RTTY, PSK, OLIVIA, JT65) - David KI6ZHD Setting up your own ham radio blog - Dean KK6BIO Building an APRS box with a Raspberryi Pi - Ed W6ELA SDR for complete beginners - Beric K6BEZ VHF & microwave contesting - Jim N9JIM Receiving weather satellite images using SDR - Pieter KK6VXV 4:30 Grand prize raffle & mingle

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43 SIGNS

44 BayCon REGISTRATION

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49 BayCon Annual Bay-Net Radio Conference

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51 BayCon Annual Bay-Net Radio Conference UPSTAIRS

52 BayCon Annual Bay-Net Radio Conference

53 FREE STUFF

54 FREE STUFF

55 RAFFLE TABLE

56 Raffle Tickets $1

57 $1 Each Coffee Donuts Soda Water $1 Each

58 $1 Each Coffee Donuts Soda Water $1 Each

59 RAFFLE TICKETS $1

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62 RAFFLE TICKETS