WAPA has purchased a spectrum analyser. It will primarily be used for high site maintenance and inspection or dispute resolution. Members will be able to rent the device and WAPA is in the process of arranging a training session for interested members.
The device has a record mode to capture the RF profile of a high site using a mobile computer. The data can then be analysed off-site. It includes software for visualisation and graphing.
The new WAPA committee for 2008 was elected at the General Meeting on Friday 30 November.
From left to right: Amelia, Nicola, Joe, David, Eugene and Leon
Update 2007-12-07:
Portfolios for the new WAPA Committee:
Joint Chairs: Johann Botha and David Jarvis
New members: Nicola Smith
Enforcement: Amelia Goor and Leon Botes
Communications: Johann Botha
Treasurer: Eugene van der Merwe
Regulatory: Abraham van der Merwe (co-opted)
Code of Conduct & Constitution: David Jarvis
The WAPA general meeting will be taking place on Friday the 30th of November 2007 at the Capetonian hotel at 2pm. Read the rest of this entry »
WAPA has expressed disappointment at the release of ICASA’s draft licence conversion matrix. According to this document ICASA has not mapped a single one of WAPA’s 38 members as Electronic Communications Network Services (ECNS) licencees. ECNS licences are required to own and operate a wireless network to provide broadband services. Read the rest of this entry »
The next WAPA General Members Meeting will be on the 30th of November 2007 at 14:00.
Venue to be confirmed.
With all the media attention and hype around WiMax this list may help you understand why not to discount practical Wifi technologies that are solving real world problems today. WAPA estimates that 40000+ clients are connected using outdoor Wifi and a potential 1Million more people who have laptops with Wifi features.
WAPA used this PDF document at the iWeek 2007 expo. It contains a good summary of why people should join WAPA. If you are a WAPA member, please use this to create awareness and introduce new members.
WAPA will be one of the exhibitors at iWeek 2007,
5-7 September, Johannesburg
Visit the WAPA stand and meet some of the people involved in WAPA.
With the rising popularity of wireless technology in our society, there is growing concern about the possible health risks of this convenient technology, especially in schools and in hospitals where use of these technologies are now very common.
Controversial articles have been published by health and nutrition groups warning us about the use of Wifi in our homes. Most of these warnings highlight the dangers of EMR (Electromagnetic Radiation), especially when linked to research which suggests a link between mobile phones and brain cancer.
The general assumption here is that indoor and outdoor Wifi technology works in very much the same way as GSM mobile phones and therefor similar health risks are involved. This is not the case.
We have migrated from the Joomla Open Source CMS to a simpler more effective Open Source CMS called WordPress on this 1st day of May.
We have added a WAPA Wiki to the WAPA website and built it on MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. We plan to use the wiki to share information with the WISP community. It can also be used as an effective tool to organize social events like a WISP Bring and Braai, where the WAPA members could get to know each other.
There is an experimental WAPA Planet running at the moment. What is the WAPA Planet? Planet is an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first. Why do I say experimental? We need to find relevant feeds to add to the planet as well as from member blogs and websites.
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