Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network™ is a high speed, self discovering, self configuring, fault tolerant, wireless computer network that can run for days from a fully charged car battery, or indefinitely with the addition of a modest solar array or other supplemental power source. The focus is on emergency communications. For more information on our Mesh Network check out the information we have below.
[ Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network News Archive Page. ]
Here you can find the latest AREDN News and Information.
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network News Archive Page
[ AREDN Supported Platform Matrix ]
Supported Platform Matrix
The supported platform matrix identifies the makes and models of hardware which may be used with AREDN firmware in the various frequency bands. The equipment marked with a green background is fully supported and tested. Models with the light green background are AREDN Stable, but, NOT recommended for new deployments. (Low memory non-MIMO device). Models with a red background are NOT supported nor are they compatible with AREDN firmware. The orange background indicates equipment that is likely to work well, but has not yet been thoroughly tested. Equipment with a yellow background is in the research stage and may or may not achieve fully-supported status depending on test results.
AREDN Supported Platform Matrix Page
[ The current AREDN software is available here. Latest Stable version is: 3.21.4.0 ]
AREDN Update Information for Version 3.21.4.0 Firmware
[ Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network Nightly Builds ]
Nightly Builds
Here is where you can find the latest versions of AREDN Firmware. Remember that these versions may have instabilities or bugs. Our progress depends on community feedback, so please report all your results, both positive and negative, from using a nightly build.
Before downloading and installing a nightly build, please read the README and CHANGELOG files. We cannot emphasize this too much.
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Nightly Builds.
[ Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network - AREDN Getting Started Guide ]
The AREDN™ acronym stands for “Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network” and it provides a way for Amateur Radio operators to create high-speed ad hoc Data Networks for use in Emergency and service-oriented communications.
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network Getting Started Guide[ How To Get On The Mesh System ]
The document below “How To Get On The Mesh” will give you the basics needed to get you started and what hardware you need to be looking for, written by Larry AB7C…
How To Get On The Mesh System
[ Arizona Mesh Information - SSID & Node Name Info. ]
We have put together an easy to follow standard and is very simple to change your node to what we are running so you can be seen by all of the other nodes.
Arizona Mesh Information - SSID & Node Name Info
[ Mumble VOIP Chat Server and Client Software. ]
Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. Tho it works extremely well over our Mesh Network. It will run under Windows, Mac, Linux and Raspberry Pi's. On Linux and Raspberry Pi's it can be found and installed Via the software package manager and the chat client and Server are separate packages.
[ Mumble Software Info and Downloads ]
Mumble Software Information
Fixing robotic or distorted sound in Mumble software
[ Install MeshChat On your Raspberry Pi ]
This is a great tutorial on how to install MeshChat on your Raspberry Pi. Includes links to all necessary files and instructions to complete the project.
Install MeshChat on Raspberry Pi
A great turotial on how to make a fresh or clean instance of MeshChar for AMO.
Make a fresh or clean instance of MeshChat for AMO
[ Renaming Your MeshChat Service ]
Renaming your MeshChat Service and clearing our all of the old data and information. This will give you a fresh start on your setup.
Renaming A MeshChat Service
[ Refreshing Your MeshChat Service ]
In order to minimize confusion, and problems it might be a good practice to "refresh"
your MeshChat service periodically. This document will show you the steps you can
take to accomplish that procedure.
Refreshing Your MeshChat Service
[ What Is Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network ]
This is an introductory presentation of the AREDN Project and a high-level "how to" on designing a wide-area mesh for restoring Inter/intra data-networking during disasters when primary network infrastructure has failed. See arednmesh.org for more information.
Introducing AREDN, the Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network presentation. (arednmesh.org)
[ Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) ]
Here you will find information on Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network. Including Hardware, Software, and forums.
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network Website
[ Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network Forums ]
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network Forums[ What Is LQ, NLQ, EXT and how to easily understand it. ]
This information comes from Steve Lewis AB7PA and is a great example on LQ, NLQ, and TxMbps. Just as the LQ and NLQ numbers will be different, the same is true of the TxMbps number. These are "estimates" that are calculated independently by each node.
More info mation can be found on the ArednMesh Wedsite
This is a great article written by Don Hill KE6BXT with the Orange County Mesh Organization and used by permission, thanks Don.
What Is LQ, NLQ and EXT Information
[ Arizona Mesh Information - Mail List ]
Are you interested in learning more about the amo Mesh Information Network and what we are doing then send an email and get added to the Mesh mail list.
Signup for The AMO Mesh Information Mail List
