[VHFcontesting] HSMM for microwave contesting?

[Matt Patterson]

Could you use a HSMM node with the callsign as your SSID?  Someone 
wanting to make a contact would put in your SSID and see if they can 
establish connectivity with your node.  Then it would just be a matter 
of using a IRC session (that can be hosted on your node) to exchange 
signal reports and whatever else is necessary.  Obviously this approach 
would need coordination to make it work.

73 Matt
W5LL

On 4/28/2016 3:31 PM, Mark Spencer wrote:
> Hi Patrick.   Yes I have briefly considered this in the past.
>
> My preferred approach would be to use the SSID field (which IIRC can be up 31 or 32 characters long ? but should be long enough for a basic Cq and contest exchange ?) to send short messages that could be seen by everyone on the "channel" who was within range.
>
> Intuitively this seems better to me than a connection oriented approach, if the goal is to make typical contest style Qso's and solicit random contacts.
>
> I've never tried this so there may well be a flaw with this approach, but I suspect if one were to use access points that had an easy to use User interface that allowed for quick changes to the SSID message, and that also provided for a "client mode" that allowed you to see SSID broadcasts from other access points this approach might "kind of sort of" work.  Transitioning between "TX" and "RX" would likely be a bit awkward.
>
> All that being said at this point I'd just as soon put my energy into getting more local hams to use 146.52 and 446.0 FM during contests, but if anyone in or around CN89 wants to try this out some day let me know.
>
> I suspect the practical range for random contacts would likely be fairly short.
>
> 73
> Mark S
> VE7AFZ
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Patrick Thomas <p-thomas at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> For us poor people who can't afford lots of transverters (and aren't quite smart enough to tear down satellite gear from Ebay), I have been thinking of repurposing a wireless access point for raw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio for 13cm and maybe even 5cm if I can find the gear to do it.
>>
>> Has anyone found any success with this in the past?  And what might a QSO consist of?  Leave DHCP on and ping the other station with a packet sniffer turned on?  Some kind of firmware-based application for the router if one doesn't already exist?
>>
>> Opportunities abound. :)
>>
>> But if time is money, maybe the transverters would be a better way to go. :)
>>
>> Just curious if anyone has considered this.  The web was not very useful for discovering prior work.
>>
>> - Patrick / KB8DGC
>>
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