[Openbts-bm2010] The Man burns in 148 days

[David B. <dbu...@ke...>]

All -

Bill's message has prompted me to start moving on this.

At this point, we still need to get our STA and frequency  
coordination and we still need to file a theme camp plan.  Here are  
the expected technical differences from last year, all still  
speculation and suggestion at this point:

* We hope and expect that Commnet Wireless will not be there.

* Our software has gotten a lot more robust in the last 6 months.   
Hopefully, this year, Papa Legba's GSM network will be more of a  
service and less of a project.  Our hardware has gotten a lot more  
streamlined in the last 6 months, too, so GSM hardware prep should be  
a lot easier this time around.

* We will probably run a 2-sector system instead of a 3-sector  
system.  The hardware will be an 850-band version of what we are  
running in Niue.  We will probably run the tower up to 90' and use  
LMR-600 instead of LMR-400.

* If we are lucky, we will have a multi-ARFCN system.  If so, we will  
be able to open up some bandwidth for speech calls.  We have no plan  
to route in-bound calls from the default world and will limit call  
times to just a few minutes to prevent abuse.

* We will try to have an SMTP/SMS gateway service so that people can  
send outbound text messages to the default world and people outside  
will be able to reply to those text messages directly.

* We're not picky about placement anymore, so we could end up  
anywhere.  We can offer to host Playanet gear, also, since we'll have  
plenty of tower space and power.

* We will try for early arrival on Thursday instead of Saturday and  
try to be fully operational by Sunday.  That means setting up the  
tower on Friday or Saturday.


So that's where we think we are headed.  More will follow on the camp  
plan.

-- David


David A. Burgess
Kestrel Signal Processing, Inc.