What a node look like?

Jun 8th 2023 — tour

Lets take the scenario that you roll up to Field Day, open up your laptop and find (or told) that there is a wireless connection to the local AREDN network at the site. You feel like you are in like Flynn as there will not be any unnecessary games with trying to coordinate log reporting and such. 

So you connect your laptop to the Wifi network and now you are stuck. What is the address of the computer that will be running as the log server? Well, since you are on an AREDN network, there is a special URL that allows you to connect to the closest node. Entering http://localnode.local.mesh:8080/ in to your web browser will give you the status page of the node.