Saturday activities

Saturday. We woke up slowly after a long night around the campfire. The videographer team showed up at 0900, and interviewed as many of the team as possible, especially the ones that had to leave today. We lost Matt, John, and several of the other specialists in VOIP and mesh networks. At least they have the Asterisk box set up and can maintain it remotely.

I configured more Trango TLink radios for another hop to the Start LA, tower, for a shot to the Alto shelter. We waited for Patrick and Steve to finish at the old ATT tower, before we headed out. We hung the Tlink 10, and the Trango 900 AP in a short time, since it got dark on us,. We got a marginal signal back to base camp, and wi9ll tweak the BC tower side in the morning. We need to also tweak the link to the ATT tower, then we can set up Alto camp for connectivity.

We had a couple of new members of the team arrive from Winnipeg Canada. They jumped right in and learned the tower ground crew role.

The VOIP stuff is pretty cool. we connect a router that the guys have programmed, and plug two phones into it, and then the evacuees can make two calls at once. all is handled by the asterisk box onm site. We are working on a script to parse the logs for call duration, and other specifics. It should be easty because the logs are in comma delimited format.

We had Catfish filets and fries tomnight for supper. I visited for a while, then sat down to start this blog, and fell asleep in the chair.