• BCWARN

BCWARN is the British Columbia Wireless Amateur Radio Network. We are currently constructing a wireless data network to link amateur radio groups, EOC's and ESS organizations in communities around British Columbia. The network ultimately connects these groups by way of Pactor3 data on HF radio, vhf/uhf packet radio, D-Star digital voice and data and high speed microwave data links.

The BCWARN infrastructure includes and supports:

• Electronic Mail via WinLink (over 2.4ghz microwave, AX.25 packet radio and Pactor3)

• D-Star Digital voice and data

• VoiceOverIP using Asterisk private branch exchange (PBX) open source telephony switching technology

• File sharing
• Remote printing and facsimile

• Video conferencing & instant messaging

• General commodity internet access (just like at home or work...)

BCWARN currently has affiliation with a number amateur radio organizations in the lower mainland including but not limited to:

• VECTOR / E-Comm / City of Vancouver - http://www.vector.comm.sfu.ca/

• Vancouver Coastal Health - Emergency Communications - http://www.vch.ca/

• Telephone Pioneers Amateur Radio Club / Telus - http://www.tparc.org/

• NWARC / City of New Westminster - http://www.nwarc.org

• Burnaby RCMP / City of Burnaby / BARC - http://www.ve7bar.org

• Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club / City of Coquitlam - http://www.ve7scc.com

• Port Coquitlam Emergency Preparedness Communications / City of Port Coquitlam - http://www.epcom.ca/

• British Columbia Frequency Modulation Association - http://www.bcfmca.bc.ca

• British Columbia Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club - http://ve7bfc.bcit.ca

BCWARN Components

• Mailing lists at BCWARN

• Index of Wiki Pages

• What is BCWARN?

• HF/VHF/UHF Frequency list for VE7SCC WinLink-2000 EMCOMM PMBO Access

• Hardware used on the network

• Pricing of hardware used on the network

• Software used on the network

• Network Topology

• Network Security Implementations

Voice-over-IP Telephony

• What is Voice-over-IP (VOIP)?

• BCWARN Telephone Directory

• BCWARN Dialing Instructions

Recent Activities

• Seymour To Nanaimo Seymour Mountain to Nanaimo (Vancouver Island), a 77km link intended to link Vancouver Island to the mainland is in the process of being tuned

• SFUtoSSI long path test from Mount Bruce on Salt Spring Island to Burnaby Mountain was a success. Take a look at the short video showing just how well and how fast this link performed.

• SFUtoSeymour From SFU (the root node) to the Wi-Lan repeater on Seymour Mtn and beyond. -- In this case V. Island

• Network_Working_Group The Network Working group has been carrying out regular meetings to discuss and plan network developments.