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 ====== Branch 30 Resilience Project ======
-:!: This page content is dated. Content was last supplied to webmaster on 15 Dec 2019
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 After a Presentation to Branch 30 last year by Glenn Mitchell (Emergency Management Otago) on the AF8 project and his request for assistance from Otago Hams, we have had to look at all our systems.
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 === The why and how - by Terry Thomas ZL4TAE ===
-Russell ZL4JW has been preparing for disasters for some time. His wireless IP network (Queenstown/ Lakes District and Central Otago) covers areas likely to be severely affected by the inevitable AF8 event now 12 years overdue. This event is likely to wipe out power, fibre and the cellular network throughout the Lakes District and possibly most of the South Island for a long time.
+Russell ZL4JW has been preparing for disasters for some time. His wireless IP network (Queenstown/ Lakes District and Central Otago) covers areas likely to be severely affected by the inevitable AF8 event now 12 years overdue.
+This event is likely to wipe out power, fibre and the cellular network throughout the Lakes District and possibly most of the South Island for a long time.
 As part of his work with QLDC, he has installed a server to allow VOIP phone calls using your own smartphone and is planning solar or power backed up Wi-Fi hotspots around the Lakes District to enable this to work.
-This is achieved by using a free version of Zoiper which allows anyone registered on his network to communicate via any IP based medium including Wi-Fi or your cellular carrier. The key component is to use your existing mobile number (with the leading 0 removed) as part of your account name.
+This is achieved by using a free version of Zoiper which allows anyone registered on his network to communicate via any IP based medium including Wi-Fi or your cellular carrier.
+The key component is to use your existing mobile number (with the leading 0 removed) as part of your account name.
 If your mobile number is 027-412-3456, then your account name will look like this 274123456@131.203.255.114:4569 to enable use of IAX2 protocol thru port 4569.
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 Done. Make a call. My Zoiper is [[tel>21221 4142]]
-If proved successful, the next steps are: add more Authentication servers across the district and develop a compact App for Voice and text communications, free of the commercial imperatives of advertising and data collection BS. Other Apps like FaceTime, Whats App etc are unsuitable as they operate from the Cloud so require a working phone/network connection & are large downloads.
+If proved successful, the next steps are: add more Authentication servers across the district and develop a compact App for Voice and text communications, free of the commercial imperatives of advertising and data collection BS.
+Other Apps like FaceTime, Whats App etc are unsuitable as they operate from the Cloud so require a working phone/network connection & are large downloads.
 Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi calls are free but making calls via the PSTN incurs charges for Countrynet but in this establishment phase, Russell is not concerned. However in future there may be a modest fee to each user or user group to cover such overheads. PLEASE USE THIS FACILITY, familiarity is good training.