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BRIT FADER SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ANNOUNCES
2014 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The Brit Fader Scholarship was established in 1993 by the
Halifax Amateur Radio Club and endowed through the
generosity of Club members and Radio Amateurs throughout
the Maritime Provinces of Canada. This scholarship is
intended exclusively for post-secondary educational use,
including graduate studies, to provide assistance with the
cost of tuition, room, board, books and/or other fees essential
to the advanced education of the recipient. The amount of
the 2014 award will be $1,000.
An applicant must be a citizen of Canada, but without
3) Most importantly, always turn off your computer’s internal
wireless before you connect the router because it controls IP regard to gender, race, national origin, handicap status or
any other factor and must be performing at a high academic
(Internet Protocol) addressing/routing and wireless connection level. An applicant must hold an active Basic Class or
to/from the Mesh network.
higher grade of Canadian Amateur Radio licence.
ROUTER ACCESS & PROGRAMMING This Scholarship will be provided for attendance at an
Once f ashed, you conf gure the router’s Mesh node operating accredited Canadian post-secondary technical school,
parameters (call sign, SSID, type, etc). All nodes are accessible to college or university, with preference given to applicants
each other using web browsers and you can remotely who have been accepted into a program in the f eld of
reconf gure/f ash your own or someone else’s node. To modify electronics or electrical engineering.
settings, you need the node’s IP address, user name (always Application submissions must be postmarked no later
“root”) and password (default “hsmm” or “admin”). than July 12, 2014.
Note: Most Amateurs change the password to prevent someone A zipped application package (Criteria; Application Form;
from changing their node’s settings. Reference Form) is available for downloading from the
Normally, a node stays tethered to its host computer and is Halifax ARC website at:
accessed by the host using IP address http://localnode:8080 or http://halifax-arc.org/britfaderscholarship
http://127.0.0.1:8080. The “127.0.0.1” is the local (to you)
network “phone” number and port “8080” the network “area D. Howard Dickson, VE1DHD
code”. When connected to the BBHN, nodes (tethered or Brit Fader Scholarship Committee
stand-alone) transmit unchanging (static) Mesh IP addresses Halifax Amateur Radio Club
starting with “10”, and this means you can always “dial” the same
number (using your browser or third party software) to access
the same node (see Figures 5A and 5B on the previous page).
Brown County ARES/RACES BBHN Mesh
The BBHN is an open or public network and your f rewall software http://tinyurl.com/qhkms65
must be set accordingly, especially when using third party programs. Industry Canada
Sometimes the f rewall prompts you for access permission, but at http://tinyurl.com/ogpcalg
other times it just blocks a program without any notice, so check
your f rewall settings if you have connection problems. Mesh Networking
http://tinyurl.com/4s6m6n
MY FINAL http://tinyurl.com/j864h
In Part 2 in my next column, we’ll set up a BBHN webmail server Shiawassee HSMM-BBHN Information
with WL2K VHF/HF two-way connectivity because it’s very useful http://tinyurl.com/ll6w3oh
for EmComm, but not easy (for most) to set up. But, to get you
Meshing, I’ve written three tutorials (posted on my website) WRT54G Router
covering easier to implement and practical BBHN applications. – 73 http://tinyurl.com/2cxec8
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES YouTube BBHN Introduction Videos
http://tinyurl.com/ndyuxpx
2.4 GHz Wireless Channels http://tinyurl.com/kxedh5n
http://tinyurl.com/2hkg2c http://tinyurl.com/kxn89wx
ALOHAnet VA3ROM: All Things Digital
http://tinyurl.com/kw9s6 http://tinyurl.com/d8nle3l
BBHN Website
http://tinyurl.com/lxsra2s
Brown County ARES/RACES BBHN Mesh
http://tinyurl.com/qhkms65
BCWARN
http://bcwarn.net/
For the RAC Store visit:
http://www.cafepress.ca/rac_radio
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