Great Lakes ReflectorIRLP 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

• Dell MD3000i iSCSI Storage Area Network (2TB)• CentOS (Linux)• 10 day diesel generator• 3 hour Liebert UPS• SNMP Monitoring

Channel Assignments• 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*

• 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)

http://ref9610.irlp.net

Additional Uses

• Virtualized Server Environment– Integrated Echolink conference server

• *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

– 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 – KB8ZGLkb8zgl@kb8zgl.net