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Title |
Summary | Author | Time | Language | Updated |
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| Community, ICTs and Gender |
Consider gender perspective in order to achieve fairness and equality of opportunities between women and men in the use and |
TRICALCAR Team | 1 hour | English | 30 Aug 08 |
| Comparative Use of Unlicensed Radio Spectrum |
Visualizing how different devices make use of the available radio spectrum.
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Rob Flickenger | 1/2 hour | English | 8 Oct 08 |
| Creating local Debian/Ubuntu repositories with apt-mirror |
Short guide on how to create, configure and use local Ubuntu repositories.
This might need more detail and examples. Please feel free to comment and improve! |
sebastian buettrich | 1 hour | English | 25 Aug 09 |
| dB math and Link Budget Calculation |
This presentation is on dB math (why do we use dBs?, examples of calculations with dBs, etc) and on Link Budget Calculation (how far can a wireless link go?, what gain should my antenna have, etc). |
Marco Zennaro, Carlo Fonda | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| DIY WiFi Antennas |
Do-It-Yourself antenna designs, including omnidirectional, biquad, parabolics, and cantennas. |
Rob Flickenger | English | 14 Aug 08 | |
| HAPs - High Altitude Platforms |
A discussion of new technologies of broadband access using stratospheric radio platforms. |
Ryszard Struzak | English | 14 Aug 08 | |
| Interference & Co-existence |
Fundamentals of radio interference, and methods for identifying and mitigating it. |
Ryszard Struzak | English | 14 Aug 08 | |
| Intro to RF and dB math |
Slideshow presented at AfNOG 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is a very quick introduction to the physical basis of telecommunications, many concepts are briefly introduced, like i.e.: e.m. waves (amplitude, frequency, ...), RF signals (power, modulation, ...), power measurement, spectrum analysis, dB (math, examples, Alexander Bell). |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 30 minutes | English | 19 Sep 09 |
| Introduction to Lab Safety |
Basic laboratory safety procedures. |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | English | 14 Aug 08 | |
| Introduction to Laboratory and Safety |
Short slideshow to welcome trainees to the laboratory, to present to them the facilities and the rules of the lab, with emphasis on safety precautions. |
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Rob Flickenger, Marco Zennaro, Carlo Fonda | 15 minutes | English | 15 Oct 08 |