SegueMan

The sheet linked only has 370 people on it, and someone said there's 409 entrants.  So maybe we're all on the sheet, just that one is outdated?

You are in. Also see my previous post above this one

I signed up at 10:30 GMT (=10:30 UTC = 6:30 AM EDT = 3:30 AM PDT) by the deadline, using Chromium, and it said it was successfully submitted or something.  (I didn't take a screenshot as evidence.)  I first tried using Firefox but decided to just use Chromium.  There wasn't a way to verify after the fact that the form wasn't lying, so I took it on good faith.

I can't find my entry on that spreadsheet either, and I switched a couple machines over to LTT team right as the clock struck midnight 11/1/23 UTC.  Looking forward to it!  (But anxious that my name isn't on the spreadsheet despite signing up)

LTT:  dahoff
F@h:  dahoff

I definitely signed up fair and square by the 12:00 GMT deadline.
 
Edited to Add:  I saw the discussion about the Google form still working even if you weren't signed into Google, so I used a new incognito tab where I wasn't signed in.  Maybe we can test signed in vs. not signed in?

I wouldn't use repeater mode (products will be marketed as "range extenders") since it cuts maximum throughput in half by introducing an additional wireless hop + contends for airspace, typically on the same WLAN channel.  I'd go with wireless client mode, sometimes also known as wireless bridge mode or media bridge mode.  I've had great results using an older wireless router flashed with DD-WRT firmware.
 
So when you experience an upstream (ISP) outage, turn on your phone's Wi-Fi hotspot (LTE tether), and then:
 
 
[Phone] - - - - - [Wireless client bridge] -------- [Your normal router's WAN interface]  
 
Legend:
- - - - - Wi-Fi (aka WLAN)
-------- Wired ethernet

I saw this contest mentioned on The WAN Show a few weeks ago and started crunching back then.  The rig normally does 24/7 BOINC/World Community Grid, but I switched to Folding@home and joined the Linus Tech Tips team for the win.  Just now created a LTT forum account, but long time viewer and subscriber.  I need a graphics card!  Haven't gamed in years and have a HYUGE backlog of games.
 

 
I've been waiting for Intel's 10nm CPUs for YEARS in order to build a beefy, low-power workstation/rig, but Intel keeps postponing the release.  In 2018, I bought a "temporary" PC from Dell, a Dell XPS 8930 with Intel i3-8100 (Coffee Lake) with 4 cores/4 threads @ 3.60 GHz base clock, no Hyper-Threading, and no Turbo Boost.  With 65W TDP.  8 GB stick of DDR4 @ 2666 MHz (capped to 2400 MHz because of i3), and Intel Integrated graphics.  There's a nice untouched PCIe 3.0 x16 slot there just waiting for a graphics card. 
 
I intend to sell this box in 2019 (hence keeping the plastic on the front of the case intact) and either build with Intel's 10nm i7 or i9 (Ice Lake?  Tiger Lake?  Whatever, Intel...) or give AMD my monies and get a nice Threadripper based on 2019's Zen 2 architecture if Intel doesn't deliver.
 
Whatever graphics card goes into this temporary Dell will be transferred to the custom built rig.  Here's hoping I win the 1070!  Should be able to catch up on all the games that have been released since ~2002 when I last "gamed" with Return to Castle Wolfenstein (great game, btw).

Interdasting, I've heard of volunteer, community mesh Wi-Fi networks.  I think ArsTechnica covered an island community in Washington or Oregon that has their own mesh Internet.  Honestly, if it's still TCP/IP, I don't see why IP protocols like D-Star and EchoLink and other amateur protocols couldn't piggyback on top of that.  But I guess the point of all that is to extend range.  Even on 2-meter/440 with amateur radio and a repeater, that alone would cover the entire Bay Area, 100+ mile radius easy, especially with a repeater on a tower.  A community mesh network would have to be pretty expansive (lots of volunteer nodes) in order to have greater range than that.
 
In the end, it's good to have options.  The more redundancy the merrier.
 
If you're looking for a starting point, buy The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual on Amazon and get your Technician license (Level 1 of 3), which opens up a whole new world of opportunity.  The exam fee itself is about $15-20, it's a multiple choice test written at about a middle or high school level, and the first one is super easy to pass -- even teenagers pass just fine.  The entire question pool is freely available for practice tests.  I studied for about a week.  The license lasts 10 years, and you can renew for free for the rest of your life.  And you can operate internationally when traveling to most countries.
 
Whether you're thinking about emergency communications during a massive "big one" earthquake or the zombie apocalypse, Amateur Radio is definitely the way to go to keep in touch with family, FEMA, and civilization, and you'll be an asset.  None of the peasant FRS/GMRS/CB stuff.  And definitely not cell phones.  Even the Technician license allows for 2-meter/440MHz local communications, so you're good to go.
 
The reason I got my license (even though I'm inactive) was because of emergency preparedness since I learned just how rugged (and nerdy!) amateur radio is, sometimes even more rugged than your local police/fire/EMS communications.
 
To be honest, I don't see Internet systems like D-Star or Echolink as resilient in major disasters since they still require either Internet or intranet infrastructure (routers, switches, access points).

I saw this contest mentioned on The WAN Show a few weeks ago and started crunching back then.  The rig normally does 24/7 BOINC/World Community Grid, but I switched to Folding@home and joined the Linus Tech Tips team for the win.  Just now created a LTT forum account, but long time viewer and subscriber.  I need a graphics card!  Haven't gamed in years and have a HYUGE backlog of games.
 

 
I've been waiting for Intel's 10nm CPUs for YEARS in order to build a beefy, low-power workstation/rig, but Intel keeps postponing the release.  In 2018, I bought a "temporary" PC from Dell, a Dell XPS 8930 with Intel i3-8100 (Coffee Lake) with 4 cores/4 threads @ 3.60 GHz base clock, no Hyper-Threading, and no Turbo Boost.  With 65W TDP.  8 GB stick of DDR4 @ 2666 MHz (capped to 2400 MHz because of i3), and Intel Integrated graphics.  There's a nice untouched PCIe 3.0 x16 slot there just waiting for a graphics card. 
 
I intend to sell this box in 2019 (hence keeping the plastic on the front of the case intact) and either build with Intel's 10nm i7 or i9 (Ice Lake?  Tiger Lake?  Whatever, Intel...) or give AMD my monies and get a nice Threadripper based on 2019's Zen 2 architecture if Intel doesn't deliver.
 
Whatever graphics card goes into this temporary Dell will be transferred to the custom built rig.  Here's hoping I win the 1070!  Should be able to catch up on all the games that have been released since ~2002 when I last "gamed" with Return to Castle Wolfenstein (great game, btw).