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How to get an Internet connection to a field for a hacker camping festival

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85 pointsjonty13 comments

For anyone who wants to come to EMF, there's a £5 discount link floating around:

https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets/token/hackspace

Their badges look fun too: http://blog.emfcamp.org/post/28558155390/revealing-tilda-our...

  > By default it communicates with all the other badges on site, 
  > playing a networked game that encourages you to meet other people 
  > with differing interests. They also communicate with things on site, 
  > but more about that soon.

Defcon's badges were really fun this year as well and were also part of a game; some of us are still playing with them. The crypto game in them was designed to get attendees to meet new people and work together to problem solve.

Here they are: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?141494-Article-Par...!

2.8 km is pretty easy with two Ubiquiti Nanobridges for example, that's a short distance... Nice expensive COW trailer too.

Yep, our backup/second link will be a Nanobridge-M5, the primary is using 38ghz DragonWave kit. Nat (who wrote that blog post)

Does the UK have any regulation of the 38ghz band? Based on the FCC info here in the US (http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum/table/fcctable.pdf) the 38ghz area of the spectrum seems to have only a small subset of bands that qualify for this use. Do you know the exact frequency the DragonWave kit uses?

Yeah, it's all licensed up there. We've got a license from OFCOM (UK's FCC equivalent) for the radio link.

FWIW opendns blocks your blog.emfcamp.org domain by default but the main domain is allowed. Couldn't really see why, usually it tells you a category it's blocked under but not this time.

I don't have it blocked by opendns and I have quite a few filters active on the network.

Apologies, i should have checked http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/ - was a local rule for tumblr.

a hacker camp is such a great idea. they should check a few club mates so nobody has to sleep... http://www.club-mate.de/

(german drink - german homepage...)

Do not worry. The hackspace london peeps are fully aware of club-mate and usually have a few crates in the hackspace!

It would've been nice to have a setup like this at Bonnaroo. Or, perhaps, cell phone service.

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