Echolink settings and Tuesday net

[Nan and Sandy Sanders]

Looks like we will still have some repeater 
problems Tuesday but Hal will have a RF path to 
it so we should be able to work around the 
problem. I have been looking at EchoLink settings 
. The default time out is 200 plus seconds, the 
repeater is 180 seconds I went into 
tools-setup-timing and set my time out for 170 
seconds. This should keep the repeater from 
timing out. The more long winded among us may 
also make that change so we get the warning. The 
next thing I did was went to 
tools-setup-performance and set network to 5 and 
PC to 2 to get buffering delays down from 1.2 
seconds to .56 seconds. If this works ok I will reduce them more.
      Sandy
     WB5MMB



Topics for discussion Tuesday Tech Net.


We had a successful net last Tuesday and we just got to cover
some of Second Topic.  So, lets see what we can 
do with the First Topic: computers.
The questions is actually all about the Makers 
movement: why are they successful?
How might learn from their successes?    I 
visited the NVA Makers group in Reston
and sat through a makers group on Auduino - there 
are other groups dedicated to
building things with FPGA, robots, metal and wood 
working (they have shops for these!)
laser fabricating in pastics (yep, these lasers 
are not toys).  Its in the auduino class
that I saw the 11 year olds coding in a C like language.  What struct me was
their sense of excitement and desire to share what they made with others.
Another was the kids had one of their parents there, usually the father,
and they also were learning to program.   A lot of people want to, and are
capable of tinkering ­ getting started really.  The entry cost is low,
both its complexity and in its doing.   What can we learn from this??

Information about the NVA Makers (the group I saw) is here:

<http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Makers/>http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Makers/


My apologies to the several hams who tried to 
check into the Net via the repeater.
Be assured we narrow minded engineers are focused on improving the experience.