Tuesday Challenge for 9 December 2008

Tuesday Challenge 9 December 2008

1. In your opinion, what is the most interesting use case for a MEP station?

2. What local oscillator scheme makes the most sense for a 3.4GHz, 5.6-8GHz duplex system?

Weekly Plan 8 December - 12 December 2008

Plans for this week: 8 December – 12 December 2008

1. Complete revision 5 of the Station Discovery Document. (carried over from last week)
2. Release revision 0.3 of the MEP Air Interface.
3. Expect the first transverter boards from the San Bernardino Microwave Society to arrive. Update list with communications with designer.
4. Learn more about the ARCHES project.
5. Check in with uWSDR project and see how GEMMA is doing.
6. Design MEP logo, Team Air Interface badge, and Baseband badge.

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Air Interface Document version 0.2

System model, layering, and protocol discussions. 

Version 0.2 published on 8 December 2008

Weekly Report 1 December - 7 December 2008

MEP Weekly Report for 1 December – 7 December 2008

The beginning of the Air Interface document was published with more to follow.

Work continued on the 5th revision of the Station Discovery Document.

Discussions about MEP as an IP network, MEP as a layer 2 network, and MEP as

built from WiFi components occurred. The diagram in the PDF is an attempt to

summarize the main points.

We learned about the ARCHES project through Glenn Currie KD5MFW.

We discussed DTN and whether and how it might fit in to MEP.

MEP Air Interface revision 0.1

Posted for review on 2 December 2008.

Weekly Plan 1 December - 5 December 2008

Plans for this week: 1 December – 5 December 2008

1. Complete revision 5 of the Station Discovery Document.
2. Release revision 1 of the MEP Air Interface.

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