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Initial Special Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday 14th November we had the first meeting of the group with 19 people present or on Zoom. An high level and technical overview was given, with an email out to follow for feedback before next steps taken.
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Whanganui Branch Presentation
Ryan ZL1RKW traveled over Whanganui Monday6th November 2023 to present on ZL WAN, what we have started, our vision how it can help the club with the upcoming DMR repeater.
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North Range Road Live
Saturday 1st October Saw the North Range Road trial site go live, using a Wire Guard Tunnel back to ZL1RKW’s house for stability testing. We also installed a ADS-B aircraft tracker provided by ADSB Exchange which is receiving to a maximum range of 442 NM.
New Zealand Amateur Wide Area Network
General Email: info@zlwan.net
Network Operations Email: netops@zlwan.net
Creating an amateur IP network that has applications benefiting amateurs and community
About
ZL WAN is a special interest group of amateurs from Manawatu-Whanganui amateur radio clubs.
The primary goal of this network is to link high sites and other common locations such as club rooms and EOC’s via multiple redundant paths to each site, utilising GURL wireless links in the 900MHz, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz bands, along with VPN tunnels between sites over existing public internet using Fiber, DSL, Cellular, WISP, Star Link etc.
From this services can be attached, repeaters, cameras, site monitors, web hosts, weather stations.
We currently have a point of presence at the following locations:
- North Range Road (NRR) – Palmerston North
- Totara Road (TTR) – Palmerston North
- Maewa (MAE) – Whanganui
- Wye Street (WYE) – Palmerston North
- Paisley Street (PLY) – Palmerston North
- Parata Street (PRA) – Waikanae
Wireless connections via Point to Multi Point radios at some of these sites will be possible in the future for amateurs to connect to over the air.
