Location

Siouxland Libraries Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room A near the main doors of the library
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Minutes

  • 5 people showed up
  • Discussed servers and running server-class hardware in a wider variety of environments than originally intended
  • Old hardware up at DSU and its place in a museum up there
  • Vector is getting rid of some servers and one of the other attendees was happy to have them
  • Quite a bit of radio discussion
    • Programming Motorola radios with a rather bespoke sounding DOS application that could be made to run under DOSBox and Windows XP
    • HAM radios and business band radios
    • GMRS radios
    • The cost and convenience of Baofeng radios
  • Lightning caused a brief power outage that was a bit of a surprise, heavy rain ensued