[HamWAN PSDR] Second dish/radio with same credentials

[Nigel Vander Houwen]

HamWAN doesn’t require any creds/registrations. You can have two or more devices easily. Each device has a unique hardware address, so you can connect to the same sector without concerns. Follow the config instructions on the web site and you’ll be set. http://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html <http://hamwan.org/Standards/Network%20Engineering/Client%20Node%20Configuration.html>

As network operators we’d prefer if you give them different names so we can more easily tell them apart if you ask for help, but otherwise they’ll work fine. We give the example name format in step 19 of the instructions as "CALLSIGN/YourLocation-DestinationCell”. The callsign part is important as it’s what qualifies as ID’ing, the latter part of YourLocation-DestinationCell is mostly informative info when the admins are looking at what’s connected. You can change this latter part to reflect a mobile station or other use case.

Nigel

> On Apr 6, 2022, at 2:25 PM, Steve Stroh <steve.stroh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's pretty common to have a loaner dish to demonstrate HamWAN to
> those that have no direct experience with it.
> 
> It's quite the showstopper at events such as field day and other public events.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 2:22 PM Stephen Kangas <stephen at kangas.com <mailto:stephen at kangas.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ric,
>> 
>> A couple of us hams here in North Bend ARES have a dish we used for portable HamWan ops (before our local Rattlesnake sector node was forced out by DNR).  We have our portable dishes configured exactly same as our fixed dishes.  However, be aware that since we only use HamWan for emcomm we do not typically have our dishes turned on except in emergencies, occasional Winlink tests, SET exercises, etc.  And when we do that it is only the fixed location dish or the portable, so I haven’t actually tested them both on and connected to the same sector node.  Offhand, I can’t see why that wouldn’t work, as the IP addresses are assigned via DHCP and I would think that the HamWan system would be agnostic about everything else.
>> 
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>> 
>> But the question is begged: what use case do you have that would require two dishes simultaneously connected from the same owner?
>> 
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>> 
>> BTW, since our HamWan sector is now gone, we are discussing P2P connections with our MikroTick dishes among our team, since there are now 4 of us with dishes, which is facilitated by choice of fixed vs portable.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen W9SK
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