[HamWAN PSDR] HamWAN use cases [was: hamwan.net DDNS]

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

On 2014-05-07 07:05, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
> Dean,
>
> ... Additionally, internal sources, are much more powerful in terms of changing the internal temperature. An active modem sending data will look rather different than an idle one.  ...  So beyond knowing if your modem is on fire, I'm not certain there's a lot to be gained.

Agreed, although a radio in the sun all day might get a little hot. 
Worth watching, although an operating range of -30C to +70C leaves a bit 
of a margin ...


> And regarding graphing voltages, I'm similarly not certain there's much to be gained from that. We've used the voltage display to check on some of our cables to make sure they weren't offering crazy resistance, and potentially dropping voltage as current needs increased during high activity, ...

Again, agreed.  I'd think it'd be more of interest in long cable runs.

>   ... how well regulated a cheap wall-wart is. As long as it's putting out enough to run the modem, it shouldn't be a problem.

[Comments about the power strip and MicroTik wall-warts at Paine 
suppressed here ...]

> If graphing these things is something we'd like to try, I can certainly create graphs for them in Cacti, but just haven't done so for the reasons above, summarily, they don't seem to offer terribly useful data.

Don't do it for me;  I'm getting sufficient data from the Dude. [Bill 
Vodall:  there is no URL -- it's not web based]

> Personally, I haven't worked all too much with The Dude, but what I have seen of it is annoying, ...

Agreed, as is the name ...

> I will re-check the OIDs for wireless signal strength. Maybe they've been adjusted since I first was looking.

Note that I am on v6.12 ...

-- Dean