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    <font face="Comic Sans MS"> I've had in mind an airborne router and
      have been keeping an eye out for something light and this gizmo
      sure fits the bill.  This device could act in a mesh, which is a
      self organizing network.  In the drone world there is the concept
      of a swarm.  I have read that the military is using
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.defensetech.org/2016/01/04/u-s-navy-plans-to-fly-first-drone-swarm-this-summer/">http://www.defensetech.org/2016/01/04/u-s-navy-plans-to-fly-first-drone-swarm-this-summer/</a> 
      which uses a lot of OTS stuff, but non the less probably cost some
      big $$$ for custom boards, which I think include radar.  So using
      this cheap, light router wired in with OTS hobby flight
      controllers with GPS (dump the radar!) you could have an
      inexpensive airborne mesh net swarm.   I wonder if you could hack
      one of those SDR dongles into it?  A rabbit hunting swarm?  This
      is just what the average ham radio club needs for field day, don't
      you think?<br>
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      Terry McCarty - WA5NTI wrote on 3/4/2016 3:08 AM:
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     Terry McCarty
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              <td>Re: [W4OVH] OK you Makers and Hackers, how about the
                smallest
                CPU device out there</td>
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              <td>Thu, 3 Mar 2016 22:01:07 -0500</td>
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              <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">From:
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              <td>Ed Danis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                  href="mailto:ed.danis@gmail.com"><ed.danis@gmail.com></a></td>
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              <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">To: </th>
              <td>Bill South <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                  href="mailto:williamsouth@comcast.net"><williamsouth@comcast.net></a></td>
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              <td>Reflector-W4OVH <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                  href="mailto:w4ovh@googlegroups.com"><w4ovh@googlegroups.com></a></td>
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                  href="mailto:10ad01d17552$6e402280$4ac06780$@comcast.net"><10ad01d17552$6e402280$4ac06780$@comcast.net></a></td>
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        <div dir="ltr">This is a pretty neat hack.  One possibility I
          could see
          for the BBHN project is to finish the hack by adding an
          ethernet
          connector, maybe an RJ-45 connector and turn it into a dongle
          for the
          voip phone eliminating the need for larger router.  Of course
          this
          would be best for a scenario that called for a mesh network in
          a small
          area.</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Bill
            South <span dir="ltr"><<a
                href="mailto:williamsouth@comcast.net" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:williamsouth@comcast.net">williamsouth@comcast.net</a></a>></span>
            wrote:<br>
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                      I
                      just heard about a device that the OpenWRT folks
                      are looking as the
                      next big (actually smallest) thing in the CPU
                      world.  Called the Zsun
                      SD card reader, it apparently may be able to take
                      a load of OpenWRT. 
                      Details are a bit over my head technically but if
                      nothing else it sure
                      looks like something one could while away a lot of
                      hours in the shack
                      toying with.  It looks like you could fit a dozen
                      or so of these in the
                      footprint of a Raspberry PI.  So you gurus of
                      technology out there,
                      what do you say, any future in some ham related
                      projects, like maybe
                      BBHN/AREDN mesh nodes, or possibly as a micro WSPR
                      transmitter?</span></p>
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                      color: black;"><a
                        href="https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader"
                        target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader">https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader</a>

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                      Bill N4SV</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font
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