Below are projects planned by club members as tech talk / build guides. Some are scheduled and will have pertinent date information, cost, etc. Others are not yet scheduled but are in planning stages and will contain all information available at the current time. And lastly, we will include past completed projects with pictures to keep as a record and also to hopefully spur more successful projects in the future.

Upcoming projects

AREDN Mesh Networking Project

This project will attempt to create a Ham Radio Mesh Network using the AREDN firmware on 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz that works with a variety of wireless networking infrastructure. Testing and planning has begun. If anyone is interesting in this project, please join the discussion group at:
https://groups.io/g/Mid-Island-AREDN-Mesh-Network
More info on what Aredn is can be found here:
https://www.arednmesh.org/

We plan to fund the AREDN infrastructure by donations to the project. Donations to this project can be done by paypal on this page:
https://ve7na.ca/donations/

Completed Projects

AIS Gateway

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/stations/20100

LIFEPO4 Battery build

Project Title / Date	Contact Information	Description
24ah lifepo4 battery build / TBD	Mark Reffel VE7RMJ ve7rmj@gmail.com	Hi everyone. It seems that there is enough interest in the battery project to move forward. The price would be $300 this will get you a 24AH lithium iron phosphate battery with case, battery management system, and Anderson power pole output. We would be tentatively looking into building them in 2-3 months depending on shipping and parts arrival. As it gets closer we will try to arrange a date that works with everyone. I will keep you all informed on the progress of things. 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗘𝟳𝗥𝗠𝗝 𝗯𝘆 𝗘-𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿 (𝗩𝗘𝟳𝗥𝗠𝗝@𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺), 𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗚erlach 𝗩𝗘𝟳𝗞𝗚𝗩 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗘𝟳𝗟𝗦𝗘 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲 made out to Mark Reffel. We still need a minimum of 10 people to sign up for the project, if we do not get the required amount of people I will just refund the money the end of November. Please still spread the word, as we would like to have as many people as possible! Link to Facebook Post