Electromagnetic Field 2022 - User contributions [en-gb]

Village:Unaffiliated

2022-05-29T20:19:23Z

Sknebel: $me

{{Village
|Description=A village for people who don't know anyone else coming, but who would like to know people by the time they leave.
|Contact=JonWood
|WebAddress=
|Activities=
|Location=
}}
A village for people who don't know anyone else coming, but who would like to know people by the time they leave.

'''If you'd like to join the village please edit this page and add your name below, along with a few details about yourself.'''

== Inhabitants ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Intro !! Bringing
|-
| Jon || Created another village like this in 2012, back when I knew no one. Doing it again 12 years later to provide a home for people who would like a softer entry to EMF than trying to find a space in the field. || 25m 16A ceeform to 4x UK plug extension, some addressable LED strip (no power supply, or anything to drive it though), 3 other people (if you're one of those people, add your name below and decrement that count)
|-
| [[User:GrantPe|Peter]] || Absolutely new to EMF. Works with computers, makes things in wood, fabric, plastic, occasionally basic electronics and metal work. || 25m 16a Ceeform to Ceeform cable, 15m Ceeform to 3x 13a sockets, kettle and stove, two smallish camping tables.
|-
| <s>Edwin</s> || Also a hacker camp newbie! Software hacker for fun and also for a living, radio ham, sometime musician.

I've ended up tagging along with a friend's village, but still a first-timer and bewildered -- keen to meet others feeling the same!
|-
| [[User:BastiaanSlee|Bastiaan]] || First time EMF Camp visitor, all the way from The Netherlands. Financial software consultant by day, hardware hacker at night. || [https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ The Things Network] gateway for LoRaWAN coverage
|-
| Emily || First time at a hacker camp - I know Raz, Robert and Ryan but I want to meet more people! Programmer/content writer, and in my free time I'm into puzzles and trivia. ||
|-
| Raz || First time at EMF / any hacker camp, keen to meet other newbies! Computational chemist from London, (very) amateur musician, Emily's boyfriend. ||
|-
| ryan || first timer, talk to me about blender. hates capitals ||
|-
| [[User:NyxPurple|Nyx]] || First timer. Interested in radios, public transport, and homebrew games. || 16a splitter, 5 metre 16a to 4x 13a socket cable, camping stove
|-
| [[User:Andy Fletcher|Andy Fletcher]] || First time at EMF. Off grid in South Shropshire. Love to talk about Solar power, battery systems, inverters, CO2 and climate change. Yes you can run your house purely on solar in the UK :) - Offgrid PV photovoltaic LiFePO4 ||
|-
| [[User:Niamhishere|Niamhishere]] || EMF second timer but now with some different dimensions. Have son, will play arcade games, prefer if the village is on the quiet side for the night. ||
|-
| [[User:Tmor|Tmor]] || Engineer, Tinkerer, and EMF first timer. Interested in anything involving electrons. || 40m 16A ceeform cable, 2 way splitter, and short Ceeform to 4x 13A + 2 USB. A wheelbarrow frame trolley thing for moving stuff between site and carpark. Small 20L fridge for drinks, milk, etc.
|-
| [[User:Aimaz|Steve]] || First timer. Into radios and want to hear about anything that people are excited about. ||
|-
| [[User:TheWhiteRabbit|Roger]] || Regular on C3 and NL Camps, EMF first timer. Identity and mail migration specialist in the M$ bubble by day, electronics, security and general tech enthusiast by night. || Event Shelter 4.5mx4.5m, Gas Grill/Cooking station, Switch (12+2x 1GbE), 16A CEE (blue) to CEE 7/3 (SchuKo) + 5 port CEE 7/3
|-
| Hopo || Connected to Leicester Hackspace, but we havent got a contingency at EMF this year. Last attended in 2016. A creator of things with LEDs, mechatronics, and general tinkering. Looking to discover new exiting people and things. || 2mx2m LED curtain, can be freestanding (to walk through) or attached to the side of a marquee/tent. If this can be visible from the 'street' that would be much appreciated. Also, a Thermal Grill Illusion that I would like to be able to set up in the event shelter for people to play with if possible, smaller than a cat-carrier, needs mains. I also have a sand-table, but still needs some (software) work so unsure if to bring that or not.
|-
| Soph || Connected to Leicester Hackspace as above, First time at EMF. Interested in performance arts and installations, fabric creations and bright colours. Looking to meet some interesting people and do some fun things. || We (Hopo & I) can bring an additional gazebo or another little gas stove etc. We have various camping supplies if needed.
|-
| Alasdair || First time at EMF. I enjoy playing with Arduino and other electronics, as well as generally making things (woodwork, leathercraft, ...). || If I've got time I'll try and program an ESP32 attached to an LED strip with a few animations
|-
| [[User:Jaz|Jaz]] || First time at EMF. Day job is being an electronic engineer fixing technical problems. The rest of life is trying to figure out what keeps me amused, and do it for as long as it makes me keep ticking. I like making things and fixing thing. Keen to see what EMF is about and what's interesting, and meet some new humans along the way! || Camping kit and not much else!
|-
| [[User:Enda|Enda]] || Irish traveling from Berlin with my son Emile both first time to the EMF. I am a designer and visual artist with a ever growing interest in experimental music. My son is a 3D print enthusiast who has become part of the maker scene in Berlin.
|-
| Sara || First time at EMF. I am a lecturer in computer science, and enjoy making interactive installations. I'm coming with my son. Hoping to meet other friendly people and learn some new stuff. ||
|-
| [[User:Rosana|Rosana]] || Studied telecommunications engineering but ended up working as a software developer. I miss the physical world (electronics & antennas) a lot and I'd like to someday join a radio amateur club and be able to design a self sufficient home. Living in London, moved to the UK with my love life Rafael three and a half years ago but thanks to the pandemic I am just now starting to be part of society and do things with people again. || Electric inflator, notebooks and pens, smiles and eager to help & have fun. ||
|-
| [[User:Asjackson|Aaron]] || linux sysadmin (previously deep learning researcher) from Nottingham. Hobbies include computers (especially old ones!), cycling, music, drinking tea (anyone bringing a kettle?) and ham radio. || camping things, tent, radio ||
|-
| [[User:Reventlov|Rémy]] || First timer, likes everything wireless, currently teacher and researcher in an engineering school. More of a software person than a hardware person. || A few SDRs and ESP32, a 15m french cable reel for europlug / schuko ||
|-
| [[User:Custard|Ben]] || Attended 2012 and 2014. Bad at writing intros. || 240v inflator, 25m UK extension (maybe?) ||
|-
| [[User:Sknebel|Sven]] || Attended 2018, many German Chaos events (from Berlin). Software-side of tech, fiddling with electronics as a hobby. Indieweb. Might camp elsewhere, but am going to visit. || random electronics bits, bag-space permitting ||
|}

== Contact ==

We're on IRC Libera.Chat (irc.libera.chat) at: ##unaffiliated

== Activities ==

TBC

Maybe a How to EMF workshop? Nothing concrete yet.

== Location / Layout ==

'''Location:''' 

Preferably Camping F or nearby - but not decided yet.

'''Layout:''' 

Having the event shelter in the centre, with tents around could be an idea.

Should leave a path out to the main road for ease of access.

'''Kit:'''
* Event Shelter 4.5m x 4.5m (courtesy of Roger)
* 15 hired chairs
* 1 hired table
* 5m 16a ceeform to 4x 13a UK sockets cable
* 16a ceeform splitter
* 4ft x 2ft village sign
* 2x 5m x 5m tarp for the floor
* (more tbc)

== Noise Levels ==

Registered as "Socialising/quiet music"

[[Category:Villages]]

Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites

2022-05-23T22:56:02Z

Sknebel: add link to a page listing more

Collection of sites that should be accessible over slow connections and/or on retro hardware. A main restriction for the latter are pages that require HTTPS - best practice has left retro-systems far behind.

=== general internet/proxies ===
http://frogfind.com/ - "The Search Engine for Vintage Computers" - "The search functionality of FrogFind is basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible."
* this can be sort-of used to e.g. read a HTTP-only version of this wiki: http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=https://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Main_Page, but navigation links etc are stripped sadly

=== Weather ===
https://wttr.in/Eastnor (requires HTTPS, could be hosted without: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)

=== News ===
(all require HTTPS)

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

https://text.npr.org

https://lite.cnn.com/en

=== additional collections of such pages/tools ===
https://github.com/ssshake/retro-computing-internet-resources

Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites

2022-05-12T18:03:47Z

Sknebel: Undo revision 459 by Sknebel (talk)

Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites

2022-05-12T18:03:00Z

Sknebel: link hackaday retroedition

Collection of sites that should be accessible over slow connections and/or on retro hardware. A main restriction for the latter are pages that require HTTPS - best practice has left retro-systems far behind.

=== general internet/proxies ===
http://frogfind.com/ - "The Search Engine for Vintage Computers" - "The search functionality of FrogFind is basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible."
* this can be sort-of used to e.g. read a HTTP-only version of this wiki: http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=https://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Main_Page, but navigation links etc are stripped sadly

=== Weather ===
https://wttr.in/Eastnor (requires HTTPS, could be hosted without: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)

=== News ===
(all require HTTPS)

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

https://text.npr.org

https://lite.cnn.com/en

=== blogs etc ===
Hackaday maintains a retro-compatible version of their blog: http://retro.hackaday.com/

Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites

2022-05-12T17:58:09Z

Sknebel: add example

Village:CuTEL HQ

2022-05-12T17:54:09Z

Sknebel: /* Programming */ linkfix

{{Village
|Description=A village for doing telecoms over copper.
|Contact=Marrold
|Activities=Phones, BBSs, DialUp, ViewData, ISDN.
}}

CuTEL are hoping to provide traditional copper telephone services ("POTS") to most of the site, as well as Dial Up internet, BBS access, Faxing and some limited ISDN and ADSL services.

If you're into retro telecoms or just want to hang out you're welcome to join us.

== You will need ==

In order to connect to the network you'll need a couple of items. We've engineered things to make it as cheap and easy as possible.

* ~50m Ethernet Cable, CCA is fine and can be purchased for as low as £11.99 [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009VKV6T4/ Amazon Link] - If you're desperate to get a connection it might be sensible to bring 2x 50m and return 1 if you don't use it.
* An RJ45 Coupler - ideally not the really cheap beige coloured ones that fall apart. We'll have these available to buy.
* An RJ45 to BT '''master''' adapter. We'll have these available to buy.
* A phone, modem, fax machine, or some other retro device that interfaces with a phone line. '''Note''' We have ~10 80s phones we'll be selling (cheaply) at the event. A bit closer to the time we'll come up with a way of reserving one.

If you plan to bring your own BT master socket or other cabling you're welcome to but it ''must'' be terminated with RJ45 on the far end.

== Services ==

=== Analog Telephony / POTS ===

A traditional telephone network - in a field.

==== Notes ====

* The gateways support pulse dialing used on older rotary style phones but ''don't'' support converting pulses to DTMF mid-call which will make navigating IVRs difficult. It might be worth converting an old pulse dial phone to use DTMF, or bringing a spare one with DTMF support.
* We're aiming to integrate with other telephone networks on-site.
* If you wish you can use a splitter to plug in a phone and a modem or some other combination. Lines are limited to 2 REN.

=== Dial Up Internet ===

We'll be providing good old fashioned dial-up internet. In theory the platform supports full v.92 56kb/s - In practise you're more likely to see 30-45k because the core network is VoIP based. Some Cisco proprietary magic makes it work fairly reliably despite running over VoIP.

If you ''need'' closer to 56k or a more reliable connection (like if you're demonstrating several retro computers or hosting a LAN party) please get in touch and we'll see what we can do.

==== You will need ====

* A modem and a computer / OS that supports it. In theory the hardware supports 300b/s up to 56kb/s

==== IPv6 ====

We've tried desperately to support IPv6 over Dial Up but ran out of time. We were using a Mikrotik router to do prefix delegation with DHCPv6 and dhcpcd on the client side, however:

* Router Solicitation messages over a PPP tunnel seemed unreliable. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't. Restarting dhcpd after the ppp0 interface was up fixed the issue, but was a bit of a hack
* I tried dibbler-client with inactive-mode but it was failing to start if ppp0 is missing
* wide-dhcpv6 doesnt seem to start if ppp0 is missing either

If you're an IPv6 genius that's desperate to see IPv6 over Dial Up please get in touch.

==== Wholesale Services ====

We're running a full LAC / LNS setup with a FreeRADIUS back end so in theory other ISPs can offer their own Wholesale Dial Up services - please get in touch if this is of interest.

=== Faxing ===

Faxing should just work

=== Bulletin Board Systems ===

We're hoping to run at least one Bulletin Board System (BBS) - See the "How to help" section

=== Videotex / Prestel / ViewData ===

We'd love to provide a Prestel / ViewData / Videotex service to connect to [https://glasstty.com/?p=1 TELSTAR] - This is somewhat dependent on creating a proxy (See the "How to help" section).

=== ISDN ===

We have the hardware to do ISDN30e / PRI over RJ48 / RJ45. It's Cisco flavoured, so it doesn't support [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Access_Signalling_System_2 DASS]. We can potentially support ISDN2e / BRI but currently only have a couple of line cards and so far its untested...

If you need an ISDN connection please get in touch.

=== ADSL ===

We ''might'' be able to offer ADSL in a limited area around CuTEL HQ. It's likely we'll have to figure out and configure the DSLAM on-site so this might not happen on day one, or at all...

== How to help ==

If you can help with one of the following please get in touch with [[User:Marrold|Marrold]]

=== Hardware ===

We're still after 3-4 Cisco VG224 Analog Telephone gateways for reasonable money.

=== Programming ===

* We're looking for someone to make a simple "TCP proxy" - The modem hardware isn't capable of distinguishing between different telephone numbers so everything is bridged to the same Telnet server I.E a single BBS. To host multiple services like BBSs and Videotex we need something that will listen on multiple ports (One per "modem") accept the incoming TCP connection, query an API ( or possibly SNMP? ) to find out the dialled number, and then proxy it through to the desired service. If it comes to it we'll try and do this ourselves but its fairly low on the priorites list.
* As it stands the modern internet is incredibly bloated and almost unusable over a dial up connection. If someone could create a couple of slimmed down web pages this would be helpful. Just some basics like news and weather.
** index of some existing sites, maybe offer somewhere prominent: [[Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites]]

=== BBSs ===

* If you're familiar with BBSs we'd love for someone to take the lead and create one for EMF - we're aiming for something simple that someone can use without prior BBS experience ( Just messaging, chat, an IRC gateway and some games? )

=== Viewdata ===

* As well as connecting through to the TELSTAR network it'd be nice if someone created some EMF specific content available via Viewdata, stuff like the schedule, bar stock and prices, and arrivals / departures from the local train station. Again this is something we're aiming to do ourselves but might run out of time.

=== Host a gateway ===

We're aiming to provide service to most of the camping area so we'll need to distribute some voice gateways across the site, ideally in Villages. Details of the gateways are below. If you're interested in hosting a gateway get in touch with [[User:Marrold|Marrold]] or add your details to the table.

* 44 x 445 x 343mm in size
* They produce a moderate amount of fan noise - probably not enough to upset your neighbours but you probably wouldn't want to sleep on top of one either.
* They need to be kept dry and sheltered from the elements, either in a marquee, tent, or a substantial gazebo with sides.
* Ideally you'll already have power and data nearby that we can borrow.
* The patch panel is on the end of a ~3m cable enabling it to be placed outside the tent, so people shouldn't require access unless somethings gone wrong.
* If you're hosting a Gateway we can lend you a phone - either a Tribune, Viscount, or Statesman. If you're lucky you might get a ''proper'' GPO 746 rotary phone but these are limited.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Contact
! Village
! Approx Location (Update once confirmed) 
|-
| Example Name
| See user profile
| Example Village
| East Side
|-
|}

== Hardware Advice ==

=== Modems ===

* Software Modems / "WinModems" are terrible. Avoid them.
* Serial modems can be fussy when used with USB to Serial adapters and make use of additional pins like RTS and CTS. I've had the most luck with Genuine FTDI adapters.
* If you're looking for a modern modem for use with something like a Pi I highly recommend the [https://www.amazon.co.uk/US-Robotics-USR805637-External-Controller/dp/B0019LZCEI/ US Robotics 5637 USB Modem]. I don't recommend paying £75 for one - They're £10-15 on EBay. Note they use an ACM driver so might not work with older operating systems. They work fine on Raspberry Pi OS. '''Note:''' I'm having some issues getting these working with v.23 1200/75 required by Viewdata so if you're desperate to use it you might need a serial modem.
* If you want the retro aesthetic get a US Robotics Courier
* Avoid paying too much, a lot of Buy it now listings on EBay are astronomically expensive. The average I've spent on a modem is £10
* There's lots of Apple MA034 USB modems on EBay, avoid them. They don't work with modern versions of MacOS, let alone anything else.
* Hoping to use an ancient 1200/75 viewdata modem with modern hardware? Don't. Very few serial adapters support the 75 baud speed. Even fewer (possibly none) support a split baud rate.
* Doing something cool? We have a few spare US Robotics Modems with RS232 serial ports, get in touch

== Contact Us ==

* [https://twitter.com/cutel_net @cutel_net on Twitter]
* #cutel IRC channel on Libera.Chat - You can access it via the web [http://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.libera.chat/#cutel here]
* Alternatively contact [[User:Marrold|Marrold]]

During the event you'll also be able to call us!

[[Category:Villages]]

Village:CuTEL HQ

2022-05-12T17:53:25Z

Sknebel: /* Programming */ add link to index of small/low resource sites

{{Village
|Description=A village for doing telecoms over copper.
|Contact=Marrold
|Activities=Phones, BBSs, DialUp, ViewData, ISDN.
}}

CuTEL are hoping to provide traditional copper telephone services ("POTS") to most of the site, as well as Dial Up internet, BBS access, Faxing and some limited ISDN and ADSL services.

If you're into retro telecoms or just want to hang out you're welcome to join us.

== You will need ==

In order to connect to the network you'll need a couple of items. We've engineered things to make it as cheap and easy as possible.

* ~50m Ethernet Cable, CCA is fine and can be purchased for as low as £11.99 [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009VKV6T4/ Amazon Link] - If you're desperate to get a connection it might be sensible to bring 2x 50m and return 1 if you don't use it.
* An RJ45 Coupler - ideally not the really cheap beige coloured ones that fall apart. We'll have these available to buy.
* An RJ45 to BT '''master''' adapter. We'll have these available to buy.
* A phone, modem, fax machine, or some other retro device that interfaces with a phone line. '''Note''' We have ~10 80s phones we'll be selling (cheaply) at the event. A bit closer to the time we'll come up with a way of reserving one.

If you plan to bring your own BT master socket or other cabling you're welcome to but it ''must'' be terminated with RJ45 on the far end.

== Services ==

=== Analog Telephony / POTS ===

A traditional telephone network - in a field.

==== Notes ====

* The gateways support pulse dialing used on older rotary style phones but ''don't'' support converting pulses to DTMF mid-call which will make navigating IVRs difficult. It might be worth converting an old pulse dial phone to use DTMF, or bringing a spare one with DTMF support.
* We're aiming to integrate with other telephone networks on-site.
* If you wish you can use a splitter to plug in a phone and a modem or some other combination. Lines are limited to 2 REN.

=== Dial Up Internet ===

We'll be providing good old fashioned dial-up internet. In theory the platform supports full v.92 56kb/s - In practise you're more likely to see 30-45k because the core network is VoIP based. Some Cisco proprietary magic makes it work fairly reliably despite running over VoIP.

If you ''need'' closer to 56k or a more reliable connection (like if you're demonstrating several retro computers or hosting a LAN party) please get in touch and we'll see what we can do.

==== You will need ====

* A modem and a computer / OS that supports it. In theory the hardware supports 300b/s up to 56kb/s

==== IPv6 ====

We've tried desperately to support IPv6 over Dial Up but ran out of time. We were using a Mikrotik router to do prefix delegation with DHCPv6 and dhcpcd on the client side, however:

* Router Solicitation messages over a PPP tunnel seemed unreliable. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't. Restarting dhcpd after the ppp0 interface was up fixed the issue, but was a bit of a hack
* I tried dibbler-client with inactive-mode but it was failing to start if ppp0 is missing
* wide-dhcpv6 doesnt seem to start if ppp0 is missing either

If you're an IPv6 genius that's desperate to see IPv6 over Dial Up please get in touch.

==== Wholesale Services ====

We're running a full LAC / LNS setup with a FreeRADIUS back end so in theory other ISPs can offer their own Wholesale Dial Up services - please get in touch if this is of interest.

=== Faxing ===

Faxing should just work

=== Bulletin Board Systems ===

We're hoping to run at least one Bulletin Board System (BBS) - See the "How to help" section

=== Videotex / Prestel / ViewData ===

We'd love to provide a Prestel / ViewData / Videotex service to connect to [https://glasstty.com/?p=1 TELSTAR] - This is somewhat dependent on creating a proxy (See the "How to help" section).

=== ISDN ===

We have the hardware to do ISDN30e / PRI over RJ48 / RJ45. It's Cisco flavoured, so it doesn't support [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Access_Signalling_System_2 DASS]. We can potentially support ISDN2e / BRI but currently only have a couple of line cards and so far its untested...

If you need an ISDN connection please get in touch.

=== ADSL ===

We ''might'' be able to offer ADSL in a limited area around CuTEL HQ. It's likely we'll have to figure out and configure the DSLAM on-site so this might not happen on day one, or at all...

== How to help ==

If you can help with one of the following please get in touch with [[User:Marrold|Marrold]]

=== Hardware ===

We're still after 3-4 Cisco VG224 Analog Telephone gateways for reasonable money.

=== Programming ===

* We're looking for someone to make a simple "TCP proxy" - The modem hardware isn't capable of distinguishing between different telephone numbers so everything is bridged to the same Telnet server I.E a single BBS. To host multiple services like BBSs and Videotex we need something that will listen on multiple ports (One per "modem") accept the incoming TCP connection, query an API ( or possibly SNMP? ) to find out the dialled number, and then proxy it through to the desired service. If it comes to it we'll try and do this ourselves but its fairly low on the priorites list.
* As it stands the modern internet is incredibly bloated and almost unusable over a dial up connection. If someone could create a couple of slimmed down web pages this would be helpful. Just some basics like news and weather.
** index of some existing sites, maybe offer somewhere prominent: [[Creating Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites]]

=== BBSs ===

* If you're familiar with BBSs we'd love for someone to take the lead and create one for EMF - we're aiming for something simple that someone can use without prior BBS experience ( Just messaging, chat, an IRC gateway and some games? )

=== Viewdata ===

* As well as connecting through to the TELSTAR network it'd be nice if someone created some EMF specific content available via Viewdata, stuff like the schedule, bar stock and prices, and arrivals / departures from the local train station. Again this is something we're aiming to do ourselves but might run out of time.

=== Host a gateway ===

We're aiming to provide service to most of the camping area so we'll need to distribute some voice gateways across the site, ideally in Villages. Details of the gateways are below. If you're interested in hosting a gateway get in touch with [[User:Marrold|Marrold]] or add your details to the table.

* 44 x 445 x 343mm in size
* They produce a moderate amount of fan noise - probably not enough to upset your neighbours but you probably wouldn't want to sleep on top of one either.
* They need to be kept dry and sheltered from the elements, either in a marquee, tent, or a substantial gazebo with sides.
* Ideally you'll already have power and data nearby that we can borrow.
* The patch panel is on the end of a ~3m cable enabling it to be placed outside the tent, so people shouldn't require access unless somethings gone wrong.
* If you're hosting a Gateway we can lend you a phone - either a Tribune, Viscount, or Statesman. If you're lucky you might get a ''proper'' GPO 746 rotary phone but these are limited.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Contact
! Village
! Approx Location (Update once confirmed) 
|-
| Example Name
| See user profile
| Example Village
| East Side
|-
|}

== Hardware Advice ==

=== Modems ===

* Software Modems / "WinModems" are terrible. Avoid them.
* Serial modems can be fussy when used with USB to Serial adapters and make use of additional pins like RTS and CTS. I've had the most luck with Genuine FTDI adapters.
* If you're looking for a modern modem for use with something like a Pi I highly recommend the [https://www.amazon.co.uk/US-Robotics-USR805637-External-Controller/dp/B0019LZCEI/ US Robotics 5637 USB Modem]. I don't recommend paying £75 for one - They're £10-15 on EBay. Note they use an ACM driver so might not work with older operating systems. They work fine on Raspberry Pi OS. '''Note:''' I'm having some issues getting these working with v.23 1200/75 required by Viewdata so if you're desperate to use it you might need a serial modem.
* If you want the retro aesthetic get a US Robotics Courier
* Avoid paying too much, a lot of Buy it now listings on EBay are astronomically expensive. The average I've spent on a modem is £10
* There's lots of Apple MA034 USB modems on EBay, avoid them. They don't work with modern versions of MacOS, let alone anything else.
* Hoping to use an ancient 1200/75 viewdata modem with modern hardware? Don't. Very few serial adapters support the 75 baud speed. Even fewer (possibly none) support a split baud rate.
* Doing something cool? We have a few spare US Robotics Modems with RS232 serial ports, get in touch

== Contact Us ==

* [https://twitter.com/cutel_net @cutel_net on Twitter]
* #cutel IRC channel on Libera.Chat - You can access it via the web [http://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.libera.chat/#cutel here]
* Alternatively contact [[User:Marrold|Marrold]]

During the event you'll also be able to call us!

[[Category:Villages]]

Village:CuTEL HQ/modem-compatible-sites

2022-05-12T17:52:30Z

Sknebel: start with some initial content

Collection of sites that should be accessible over slow connections and/or on retro hardware. A main restriction for the latter are pages that require HTTPS - best practice has left retro-systems far behind.

=== general internet/proxies ===
http://frogfind.com/ - "The Search Engine for Vintage Computers" - "The search functionality of FrogFind is basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible."

=== Weather ===
https://wttr.in/Eastnor (requires HTTPS, could be hosted without: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)

=== News ===
(all require HTTPS)

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

https://text.npr.org

https://lite.cnn.com/en