[Ronja] Ideas Welcome!

[Russell Valentine]

Alan,

a) What I got seemed to work well so far. I was a little concerned that 
the cable between the twister and TX and RX that was used was unshielded 
CAT5. I believe this has also previously been discussed on the mailing list.


b) Honestly I doubt you will find people willing to accommodate your 
idea. What is in it for them? But good luck with that. As said on the 
RONJA website, people have had success building a RONJA without any 
previous experience.

 From personal experience, I've found getting the electronic components 
to be difficult, but I think there are some people on this list who have 
extras of some of the more critical hard to find parts (Like the LED). 
If you really go through with your ISP idea, it should be less difficult 
to acquire them if you get them in bulk. Experience in part purchasing I 
think would be helpfull. I am a bit more knowledgeable about this than I 
was previously and might not find it as difficult anymore.


c) I think it has been done.



I wrote more about my thoughts of the RONJA in a small amateurish paper:
http://coldstonelabs.org/files/ronja.pdf

You can also see some pictures and video of my optical heads.
http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=ronja

Personally I am currently having a optics problems. I thought this part 
would be easy since I have built a telescope in the past. I might just 
be spoiled by nice machine precision focusers and parabolic mirrors. I 
am finding it impossible to focus the TX so it is collimated. I'll 
slowly keep trying stuff till I get it.



Russell Valentine


Leandro Alan wrote:
> Hi Russel!
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> I found fasto in google in 2007, I did sent email for price and specifications but I never receive return from Fasto!
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> If is possible, do you answer some questions!
> a) What do you think about quality of fasto products?
> b) Your opinion about my ideia of do a trip to Europe (Czech Rep.!?) to meet, watch and learn how can I do a complete Ronja.
> c) Ronja works´s well in a internet provider? In this case using ronja for backbone link and to final user too.
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> Any information, experiences (good and bad :-)), etc is too important for development of my project!
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> Thanks!
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> Alan
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>> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:36:17 -0600
>> From: russell.valentine at gmail.com
>> To: alan_moc at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [Ronja] Ideas Welcome!
>>
>> Over a year ago I bought some pre-built Ronja electronics from FASTO. 
>> They might still have some left.
>>
>> http://www.fasto.cz/fso/
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>> Though the electronics side shouldn't be to hard. The hardest part is 
>> getting together the correct parts. Since a pcb board is provided on the 
>> Ronja site, it is just plug in the part and solder it.
>>
>>
>> Russell Valentine
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>> Leandro Alan wrote:
>>> After all, I´m totally oppened to discuss ideas to how can I do a Ronja in my country, experiences with low cost internet provider (czfreenet maybe?!?), anyway all experiences is wellcome!
>>>
>>> PS: I found in Brazil the Farnell Newark. It´s worldwide supplier and because this it´s too important to mantain the same part number of electronic parts list of Ronja.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for all help!
>>>
>>> Alan