[Waverley ARS] Lighthouse/RD weekend 16/17 August

[Raffy Shammay]

Re: portable internet

Of course we could take the club's Iburst Pcmcia modem on a field trip for a
time. Eddie's laptop already has the drivers & password etc.
 It would presumably need to be back at the club  for the RD contest which
starts at 6pm.

We could also scan for wifi in the area
However, I doubt we could leave ANY device at Macquarie Light after the
event.

 73
Raffy


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On Behalf Of Adam Carmichael
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:03 PM
To: Grant La Delle
Cc: VK2BV list; Gordon & Kizny
Subject: Re: [Waverley ARS] Lighthouse/RD weekend 16/17 August
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My laptop has 3G built in - all I need is a SIM card. It's an IBM that was
sold in exchange with Vodafone, but I never activated it. It's got about 4
hours of battery and requires about 75W when the batteries have run out.
I'm just not sure if we will need it as a logging station for the RD contest
too or not. If so, it might get 're-tasked' a couple of times.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:49:55 +1000, "Grant La Delle"
<seven87 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Thanks Laurie and all,
> 
> Macquarie light would be a better QTH for AIS reception and I would 
> like to explore the possibility of leaving the ship RX and a small VHF 
> marine
band
> 
> whip (could be placed inside window) there after lighthouse day for a 
> trial.
> 
> As there will be no wired net access, I was wondering if anyone has 
> any ideas on how to send the data by other methods, maybe the cottage 
> next door (lighthouse keeper?) has a wireless router I could beam to, 
> or via the mobile phone network?
> 
> Something like:
> 
> Ship receiver > serial cable > GSM/3G device > cellnet > ip address
> 
> or maybe:
> 
> Ship receiver > serial cable > serial to ethernet adaptor > ethernet
cable
>> 
> GSM/3G device > cellnet > ip address
> 
> Ideas so far:
> 
> 1. Unwired modem, ~$30 on Ebay, but plan required, power hungry.
> 2. Virgin Broadband at Home (cellular modem with ethernet)
>
http://www.virginbroadband.com.au/wirelessbroadband/broadband-at-home.aspx
> 
> $60/mo plan, power hungry
> 3. Cheap 3G phone capable of tethering with data cable, purchase 
> prepaid sim and add data pack. Planetisp data price is 33c/MB. Maximum 
> period a data call can remain connected?
> 4. Commercial mobile data modem, $$$$$?
> 5. One of these routers http://www.ozcableguy.com/3G.asp that you can
plug
> a
> 3G USB modem into, e.g. '3' Huawei E220 $149 at DSE. '3' data is $5/GB. 
> Power hungry?
> 
> Problem with '3' E220 USB modem is they appear to rely on a laptop/PDA 
> to

> negotiate network access. Ideally want to avoid having a PC at the 
> site, so need a modem that can put a sim card in and it does all the 
> network authorisation, etc., autonomously from connected devices. Also 
> the E220
is
> 
> USB so would need an RJ45 adaptor for BF430. Also USB needs 5 volt 
> power that I believe RJ45 won't provide.
> 
> In summary, need a self authorising, continuous connection for long 
> periods, and prefer serial feed, but ethernet from BF430 available. 
> Bluetooth
phone
> 
> also possible with serial > bt adaptor.
> 
> Any ideas on hardware/plans appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, Grant.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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