Great Lakes Reflector
IRLP ref9610
Owner:
KB8ZGL - Mike
Admin:
K8SN - Sam
Location
• Located just south of Grand
Rapids in Byron Center, MI.
• Housed in state of the art
Fiber Network Operations
Center for West MI
• Network and rack provided
by FreedomNet Solutions
Fiber Network
• The Great Lakes
Reflector is connected
via dual GB Fiber links
• BGP routing via
Charter, Level3, USS
and others
• Direct connection to
Global Crossing for
outside the US
connections
Hardware Specs
• Dell 1955 Blade Server
• Mirrored GB Ethernet ports on Cisco GB switch
• VMWare vSphere (Virtualization)
– vMotion, High Availability (HA), Disaster Failover
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Dell MD3000i iSCSI Storage Area Network (2TB)
CentOS (Linux)
10 day diesel generator
3 hour Liebert UPS
SNMP Monitoring
Channel Assignments
http://ref9610.irlp.net
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9610 – Open Ragchew (English)
9611 – Nets
• Say Good Morning with Radio Net (Daily 1500UTC)
• IRLP Open Forum Net (Fridays 0100UTC)
• The Friendly Manitoba Net (Wednesdays 0100UTC)
9612 – Florida Hurricane and Skywarn (when active)
9613 – Kentucky IRLP Reflector Channel
9614 – South CARS – integrated Echolink *SCARS* - voip.southcars.com
• Full Net (Sat 1300-1500UTC) / Pacific Coast Connection (Sat 1700-1800UTC)
• Eurasia Connection (Sat 1800-1900UTC) / Australia Connection (Sat 2100-2200UTC)
• Traders Net (Sun 1500-1600UTC & Wed 1500-1600UTC)
• TNT Open Forum (Fri 0100UTC)
9615 – Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) – www.sbe.org/IRLP.php
9616 – West Michigan linked repeaters
9617 – Michigan Channel – integrated Echolink *MICHIGAN*
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Upper Peninsula Net(Sun 2000EST) / Michigan IRLP Link-up Net (Tues 0100UTC)
9618 – Alaska Channel – integrated Echolink *ALASKA*
9619 – General Ragchew and extended one-time events (English)
Additional Uses
• Virtualized Server Environment
– Integrated Echolink conference server
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*MICHIGAN*, *ALASKA*, *SCARS*, *WMPORN*
– Dstar Reflector ref004 (http://ref004.dstargateway.org)
• Channel A – Experimental (Analog audio present) / Backup SouthEastern Weather
• Channel B – Texas Dstar Permalink Repeaters
• Channel C – Ragchew (English) / Digital with GPS position monitoring
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Dstar Reflector xrf004
IRLP exp0042 – experimental technologies
Streaming Audio Server (ShoutCast)
Webserver (Apache and mysql)
Custom written channel sysop control pages and user listings
Mike Wolthuis – KB8ZGL
kb8zgl@kb8zgl.net
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