by KU7M
23. February 2013 10:52
So I discovered a small oops on my part. I cloned the location of last years conference in all the materials, completely forgoting that we had moved back to the location we used in 2010. I've just about finished updating all the online materials and will next start sending out correction e-mails. I know that no matter hard I try, someone will go to the wrong lcoation.....
73,
Kenny,KU7M
by KU7M
4. February 2013 11:29
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Bart Kus – AE7SJ
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Bart is a System Engineer with Microsoft, with a background in electronics, software design, system administration and networking. His career has been built on tackling large-scale, high performance problems in unexplored spaces.
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HamWAN – http://www.hamwan.org
It's time for ham radio to gain the lead in digital communications, starting by building a modern multi-megabit IP-based wide area network in the Puget Sound. This talk covers the design of the Puget Sound Data Ring and the challenges faced in implementing such a network on a tight budget.
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JeremyMcDermond - NH6Z
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Jeremy has been licensed since the age of 14, he began programming his Apple II at five years old and learned C in the 6th grade. He is a 15-year veteran of systems and networking engineering, holding certifications from Sun, IBM and MCSE. When he isn't building an open source D-STAR repeater, he is an attorney and a member of the Oregon State Bar association.
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Stupid Raspberry Pi Tricks
The little Raspberry Pi credit card size computer has taken the ham radio world by storm in the last year. Jeremy is going to review some of the ideas he has for a RPI, some implemented and some planned for the future. How about a combined DSTAR repeater and APRS Digipeater? How about a fancy rotor controller? Portable analog repeater using some used Kenwood commercial radios?
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Ward Cunningham – K9OX
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Ward has been hooking computers up to radios since the 1970s while studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Purdue. The seeds of wiki sprouted at his next job: 10 years in the research labs at Tektronix. His recently radio activityhas been on 20m PSK-31, IRLP and battery portable 40m CW with computer innovations related to all three. He has lived briefly in Redmond but calls Portland home.
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Federation and Refactoring for Innovation in Radio
We'll show how the wiki philosophy grew from ham radio and will come back to supercharge it. We've reinvented wiki to feel more like a ham shack than a datacenter. The amateur radio service is tailored to experimenters. The new wiki is similarly inclined. We'll show several ways these two services complement each other so that we can all incrementally innovate in this new digital world.
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Bryan Hoyer - KG6GEU
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Bryan spent over 25 years in Silicon Valley as an engineer, inventor and small business entrepreneur. Bryan is currently living on San Juan Island and has been working with all forms of digital amateur radio, first getting involved with Sail mail in 2001. Bryan founded NW Digital Radio in 2012 to bring the UDR56K to fruition.
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It's the information rate!
NWDigital Radio - http://nwdigitalradio.com
The UDR56K is most interesting radio product to come out of Dayton 2012 or maybe any Dayton in the last ten years. A 25w 70cm digital transceiver, capable of 4800 to 56 kbps, supporting both FSK and GMSK. Connection is via an Ethernet port, controlled by a web browser from any PC, Mac or Linux host.
Bryan will present his thoughts on digital radio technology and provide a summary of UDR56K hardware specs, plus a short UI demo.
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John Hays – K7VE
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John is currently an IT executive with responsibility over IT operations, software development, user interaction design, and telecommunications for Edmonds, WA based MaverickLabel.Com. He was first licensed as an amateur radio operator in 1973 progressing through all license classes from Novice to Extra Class and is a Volunteer Examiner.
He was a pioneer in packet radio, including early IP over AX.25, and a participant in one of the earliest PACSAT concept meetings. He is the architect of STARnet Digital, a distributed and dynamic system for joining D-STAR stations in a fluid network based on callsignaddressing. John is the network coordinator for amprnet (Net-44) in Western Washington and is a past board member with the WWARA repeater coordination body. In his spare time he operates an experimental repeater for D-STAR digital voice and provides technical support to many D-STAR gateway administrators worldwide."
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The software!
NWDigital Radio - http://nwdigitalradio.com
The most interesting radio product to come out of Dayton 2012 or maybe any Dayton in the last ten years. A 25w 70cm digital transceiver, capable of 4800 to 56 kbps, supporting both FSK and GMSK. Connection is via an Ethernet port, controlled by a web browser from any PC, Mac or Linux host.
John will give us an overview of what should be the available in the initial release and the kind of applications we can play with out of the box.
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Brian Heaton – KY9K
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Brian has over 25 years of experience in all facets of networking. His terrestrial transport networking experience extends from legacy teletype systems through modern dense wave division multiplexed (DWDM) OC-192 SONET systems. His satellite communication experience covers the range from single-channel UHF and X-Band narrowband satellite terminals up to and including multi-channel wideband Ku and Kasatellite terminals. Beginning in 1990 with X.25 networks, Brian worked extensively with all commonly used networking technologies. Since 1993 he has served in the IP networking engineering roles for private companies, government organizations and service providers both in the US and abroad.
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NW-MESH
The HSMM Mesh movement is in full swing in the Pacific Northwest. HSMM is the Amateur radio focused effort to build self-forming, self-healing and rapid setup wireless networks using off the shelf 802.11 hardware. Leveraging the very common (cheap!) Linksys WRT54G hardware or the more rugged Ubiquiti Bullets for outside installations, a merry band of ham radio hackers are building and exploring what can be done with this technology. Brian is one of the current ring leaders and will update us the status of technology
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by KU7M
18. January 2013 05:37
I'm both way ahead of schedule and way behind schedule at the moment for the MHDC 2013. We have date and the conference space is all booked, I've even got more speakers then we have time for at the moment. But I haven't started on registrations or advertising and both of those are super important. So this weekend I'm writing the different webpages we need, putting out the list of speakers and getting the registration page set up.
by KU7M
29. October 2012 17:34
I officially announced the date! Small things to kick off the conference next year. I'm really happy that we have already got a full line up of speakers and a theme for this years conference. The conference this year is going to focused on digital communications and Amateur radio networking. I can't wait to start rolling out some of the details!
So please mark you calenders, the conference will be on March 23, 2013!
73
Kenny, KU7M
by KU7M
19. February 2012 13:18
I've been a more then a little behind on different conference activities, but for the most part things are coming together. I posted a nearly complete list of speakers and topics to the main website tonight. There is one slot not filled, but not because I don't have content. Rather I have to much content and I'm trying to make the best things fit.
Current list of topics and speakers.
by KU7M
14. January 2012 17:00
This evening I finished the last item, which I considered critical, before starting the big registration push. For the most part I have been taking care of little details, like writing up directions to the conference and getting the final pricing for the conference worked out. But enough of that is done, so I can move forward.
Our ARRL sanction approval should be completed this weekend, Director Fenstermaker approved it weeks ago, but we have been waiting for the Executive Committee's approval. I'm guessing with the ARRL board meeting this weekend, I'll be getting an e-mail sometime next week. It sucks that we missed the deadline for having the conference in the March issue of QST, but that was completely my fault for not getting the paperwork submitted earlier.
I've got about 2/3rd of the agenda mapped out and as I get the final confirmations from the various speakers, I'll start posting details here. But so far I'm very happy with the line up.
More to come....
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by KU7M
5. September 2011 14:35
So I spent a couple hours this long holiday weekend updating the MicroHAMS website and creating a new landing page for the MicroHAMS Digital Conference. I've wanted to pull everything together into a single place for a long time, but finally got it done tonight. There is a huge amount of content which is spread all over the place which would be great to centralize. Now that we have a landing page, glueing on the other stuff should be easy.
On the MHDC front, we have two big things happen recently. The most important is that we have a date! Yep, we are back on our normal schedule and the 2012 conference will be March 31st. What isn't always obvious is how much help I get from people and one of the biggest things is getting the facilities for the conference. Big THANK YOU to Josh - K7JSH for getting that taken care off!
The second big thing is getting the first speaker lined up, which almost happen by accident. I won't announce who it is yet, but he is now a veteran for the MHDC and always gives an amazing talk. If you know of anybody who'd be a good choice or you have a topic that you'd like to hear about, drop me a note.
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by KU7M
27. April 2011 11:55
Just a quick update to say the MicroHAMS Digital Conference 2012 is starting to get kicked off. We should have a date confirmed within a couple weeks and I'm going to start putting together a list of speakers / topics list. I'm taking off to Dayton in a couple weeks, so I'm sure lots of ideas will come up while wondering the halls.
We'd like to try some new things this year, like having speakers who can't physically make it speak via Skype. More and more conferences are starting to-do this and I think it would be interesting.
So if you have any ideas or want to help, send me a note!
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by KU7M
28. August 2010 09:05
I've been working on the one part of this conference which I truely hate, processing registrations. I have put it off way longer then I should have and now am having to plow through about 80 of them all at once. I have finally finished the first pass, which includes matching up payments via PayPal with registrations, this takes a while but isn't difficult. Now I'm left with the stuff which doesn't match up, so I've got to send e-mails to about half a dozen people that registerested but I don't have any payment. I only ended up with one payment that I can't match to a registration, which is nice.
So if you've registered and never heard anything, I'm sorry. When you see me at the conference you can give me a bad time about it. Otherwise you should be getting an e-mail from me in the next 12 hours. If you registered and didn't manage to get PayPal to work, I'll be calling on you as well.
On my to-do list for this winter is a new registration page, which will automate as much of this workflow as I can figure out howto make happen. I've been looking for a project to try our Ruby on Rails and I think this is perfect. If you are interested in helping out, drop me a note.
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by KU7M
10. April 2010 15:10
Just a couple random updates, since I don't really have enough for a full blow entry.
1) Registration is live and we are seeing a steady trickle of people signing up. Its early with the conference being over six months away, but it really nice to see the one or two registration e-mails flow in during each day.
2) We have three REALLY great leads on speakers already. Lyle Johnson-KK7P, Dan Smith-KK7DS and Jeremy McDermond-NH6Z are all serious maybe's right now. (meaning they want to come and as we get closer they will confirm their schedules) This is REALLY great for this stage of the game, I know all three will be kick ass speakers.
3) Our ARRL sponsorship has been submitted, so hopefully this will get approved in the next 30 days. Now we need to figure out who to ask from the league to come out and attend. (Steve Ford was great last year, but I know he has family committemnts which prevent him from traveling during the fall) I'll poke around at the ARRL booth during Dayton next month....
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