HF Radio: Guide for facilitators and community installers (2022)

by Rhizomatica

"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station."

"[It] is an outcome of a number of workshops conducted in 2020 in Puyo and Lago Agrio, Ecuador, by Rhizomatica, together with Kara Solar Foundation and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These training workshops were attended by members of the Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Sápara, Shiwiar, Waorani, Kofán, Achuar, Andwa, Shuar, Quijos, Kichwa and Siekopai.

From this effort, which is ongoing as of the publication of this manual, 40 solar-powered shortwave or high frequency (HF) radios have been deployed in different parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon. These radios were installed by Indigenous technicians and local people from beneficiary communities and nationalities, who were trained during three-day in-person workshops in the second half of 2020."

https://www.rhizomatica.org/app/uploads/2022/06/HF-Radio-Guide-EN.pdf

#radio #telco #hf #solarpunk #permacomputing #lowtech #ecuador

HF Radio: Guide for facilitators and community installers (2022)

by Rhizomatica

"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station."

"[It] is an outcome of a number of workshops conducted in 2020 in Puyo and Lago Agrio, Ecuador, by Rhizomatica, together with Kara Solar Foundation and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These training workshops were attended by members of the Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Sápara, Shiwiar, Waorani, Kofán, Achuar, Andwa, Shuar, Quijos, Kichwa and Siekopai.

From this effort, which is ongoing as of the publication of this manual, 40 solar-powered shortwave or high frequency (HF) radios have been deployed in different parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon. These radios were installed by Indigenous technicians and local people from beneficiary communities and nationalities, who were trained during three-day in-person workshops in the second half of 2020."

https://www.rhizomatica.org/app/uploads/2022/06/HF-Radio-Guide-EN.pdf

#radio #telco #hf #solarpunk #permacomputing #lowtech #ecuador

Hey everyone,

the permacomputing principles have received an important update!

https://permacomputing.net/principles/

Next to our attempt to articulate things a bit better, we're now testing a new structure to give examples of how each principle could be translated into more concrete steps regardless of levels of technical skills and literacy.

⚠️ It's still a 🚧 big work-in-progress 🚧 , and for sure not the last iteration.

This new text benefited from input, feedback and the writing/editing of: annaa @cmos4040 @decentral1se @jveenk @kattrali @latentspace @l03s @leoscarin @michal @msavoritias @manetta @neajul @pixouls @praxeology @sandu @sister0 @viznut and myself.

Big Thanks to @mordremoth for last minute sharp remarks and to everyone shaping, hacking, breaking, growing and fermenting ideas and practices around this topic!

If you're interested to join this happy mess, check https://permacomputing.net/Community/ to get started.

#permacomputing

You can watch my recent talk for Critical Signal,
it's an introduction to #Permacomputing ideas from first principles.
https://inv.nadeko.net/embed/BNYxAdjl1f0?

You can watch my recent talk for Critical Signal,
it's an introduction to #Permacomputing ideas from first principles.
https://inv.nadeko.net/embed/BNYxAdjl1f0?

We all know what’s going on, but we can determine where we go from here. Like mycelium, we can decompose the rot and make new life.
#permacomputing #solarpunk
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/our-resistance-will-become-our-persistence

To fellow locals in the Wellington region, this will be a talk you'll not want to miss.

@neauoire of 100 Rabbits will give a (remote) talk on Tuesday on the critically vital movement of #permacomputing, & with plenty of time for Q+A after.

There are still a few seats left.

Register here: https://criticalsignals.nz/programme/permacomputing-101/

To fellow locals in the Wellington region, this will be a talk you'll not want to miss.

@neauoire of 100 Rabbits will give a (remote) talk on Tuesday on the critically vital movement of #permacomputing, & with plenty of time for Q+A after.

There are still a few seats left.

Register here: https://criticalsignals.nz/programme/permacomputing-101/

if you have affinity with #permacomputing and you find yourself in and around #rotterdam please head on over to https://rotterdam.permacomputing.net as we start to roll the ball down the hill...

> "If you’re an app developer reading this, can you tell me, off the top of your head, how your app behaves on a link with 40 kbps available bandwidth, 1,000 ms latency, occasional jitter of up to 2,000 ms, packet loss of 10%, and a complete 15-second connectivity dropout every few minutes?"

https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet

#SlowNet #permacomputing#Internet #networking

I love to hear about interesting accounts to follow for #FPGA, #riscv, #oshw, and #permacomputing. 💛

I love to hear about interesting accounts to follow for #FPGA, #riscv, #oshw, and #permacomputing. 💛

Online #permacomputing workshop announcement: On Wednesday 6 August, join me for the final "Permacomputing for #Wilderland" workshop on making smol websites!

https://remote.wilderland.ie/events/permacomputing-august-small-websites.html

"From considerations of content management tools, to content export, static site generators, external resources, lightweight media and hosting methods, we'll look at tools to analyse website content (using browser inspector tools), figure out what they require (using traceroute), how to build small websites, and ideas of how to reduce the weight of existing websites."

This is the last of a three-part workshop series, the first looked at small-scale power generation, the second considered how to repurpose portable devices (for web hosting and more) and this final one is about #smolweb. See you on the 6th! Please do

Heads up #PermaComputing Berlin friends. Our next Meet-Up is approaching:

# permacomputing & postmarketOS #

13. July 2025 at 19:00
@offline
Lichtenrader Str. 49

Artist and Designer Chaline Bang ( @chalinebang ) will talk about her personal adventures and collective experiments in permacomputing. She is a member of the Rotterdam-based research group permacomputing evenings and will share how they learned to build servers out of obsolete smartphones using postmarketOS. The group conducted experiments into practical techniques and aesthetic approaches as well as organizing public events with outside researchers.

http://berlin.permacomputing.net

I've been invited to talk about #permacomputing at Critical Signals next month! I'll try to introduce some of the ideas that I find most interesting via practical examples. Save the date!
https://criticalsignals.nz/programme/permacomputing-101/