Open Day 3

Although numbers where down on what was expected on the day, we feel everyone who attended enjoyed the event. A number of new people from a range of backgrounds attended including radio amateurs, WLAN enthusiasts, IT professionals, electronics engineers, people from community groups and the general public.

The Open Day was made possible through the generosity of the Park Side Primary School for providing the site and power for the event and the members of Air-Steam who gave their time and commitment to the day.

The event was fully connected and wireless routed access points in all standards 802.11a, b and g were available. Also connections into the Internet and the Air-Stream, providing a great opportunity for people to test and setup equipment and software.

A number of stalls were also setup with a desks to assist people with setting software and hardware. Including demonstrations in Netstumble, Node DB, BGP and the many deferent uses for wireless technologies such as Video surveillance, VoIP and many others.

This offered the opportunity to install a temporary router in the grounds of the day. Which was associated to the Parkside AP and allowed for working examples of routing and the new CM9 802.11a devices in action.

Above the new Air Stream Stumbling kit being demonstrated to interest radio amateurs, don’t be mislead by these guys they know what’s going on.

Note: The Stumbling Kit is available to any Air-Stream member to use

A sausage sizzle was setup offering delicious meals served by Air Stream resident sheff

Quite a few radio amateurs attended showning a great interest in the technology and despite there age, they have a very good understanding of the hardware on show.

The hardware stall had many people asking questions including antenna design, router construction and the verious types of wireless devices from PCI to PCMIA and Ethernet…

There was also an increase in new membership, also great interest in the two new Minitar G to give away as prizes.

Also a great range of Air Stream merchandise was offered including shirts, hats and drink holders.