10 YEARS WITH WIRELESSMy Rural Strivings*The 6 Day Trek to Mt Everest, AFTER flying to LuklaBig Overview19,000 Foot KalaPataar and 17,500 Foot Khumbu GlacierDonated Cisco Wi-Fi Stuff 100mw, POE, 350 as Bridge, Relay, Access Point, 13.5 dB Directional, 12v Battery/inverter, Solar PowerStarting From 11,000 Feet NamcheThe Trekker, Base Camp BeatOur Virtual Yeti’s 18,000 Foot Wireless E-mail, Data, VOIP, NetworkBase Camp, VSAT and Cyber CafeTsering/Hughes Namche Bazaar Sherpa Community Network PlanMy Next Hack in Nepal?Wireless in the Jungle - Billions of Gallons of Water, Heat, CanopyPuerto Rican EnvironmentTowers, Trees, Rain, Rats, Data Loggers and Wireless SolutionsA Now Happy Scientist’s Data Collection from out in the JungleUnsolved Jungle ChallengesBroadband Wars With British Telecom. Or, Wales Connected and Rebelling against the Insufferable Brits, WirelesslyWales, 3 Million and Lots of Small Celtic Cultures Towns and FarmsWelsh Political Action - Dafydd ap Hugh (me) and Ministers of the National AssemblyThe First Concept Cut for the ‘e-fro’ Wireless SolutionThe Field Trial - Bangor to Bethesda – North WalesNorth Wisconsin Lake Woods and Limnology StudiesTrying to Overcome the FCC 915Mhz Power LimitationsOuter Islands, Chesapeake Bay14 Miles to and on Hog IslandFrom Field Station to IslandThe Alaskan Wilderness16 Miles Down the Tanana RiverPoker Flats and Caribou Peak 38 Miles from Fairbanks +100 to -60 degrees F.Dark and Cold – Power Always a ProblemNow 36 Other Remote SitesMore Challenges & My Future Solutions - Tiny Mesh, Single Sensors, Fuel Cells, ScalableSmall Hydrogen Fuel CellPowerPoint PresentationAnd Give Credit where Credit is DueSome Contacts10 YEARS WITH WIRELESS From Jungles to the HimalayasDave HughesOld Colorado City CommunicationsMy Rural Strivings*•Wireless on Mount Everest•Penetrating the Jungle•Beating British Telecom in Wales•On ATVs in Alaska•Lakes and Woods•Off Shore Waters with no Power•Still Challenges •You Want Scalable Wireless?•Hedy Lamarr * My NSF, Company, Pro Bono, WorkThe 6 Day Trek to Mt Everest, AFTER flying to LuklaBig Overview19,000 Foot KalaPataar and 17,500 Foot Khumbu GlacierDonated Cisco Wi-Fi Stuff100mw, POE, 350 as Bridge, Relay, Access Point, 13.5 dB Directional, 12v Battery/inverter, Solar PowerStarting From 11,000 Feet NamcheThe Trekker, Base Camp BeatOur Virtual Yeti’s 18,000 Foot Wireless E-mail, Data, VOIP, NetworkBase Camp, VSAT and Cyber CafeTsering/Hughes Namche Bazaar Sherpa Community Network PlanMy Next Hack in Nepal?Wireless in the Jungle - Billions of Gallons of Water, Heat, CanopyPuerto Rican EnvironmentTowers, Trees, Rain, Rats, Data Loggers and Wireless SolutionsA Now Happy Scientist’s Data Collection from out in the JungleUnsolved Jungle ChallengesBroadband Wars With British Telecom. Or, Wales Connected and Rebelling against the Insufferable Brits, WirelesslyWales, 3 Million and Lots of Small Celtic Cultures Towns and FarmsWelsh Political Action - Dafydd ap Hugh (me) and Ministers of the National AssemblyThe First Concept Cut for the ‘e-fro’ Wireless SolutionThe Field Trial - Bangor to Bethesda – North WalesNorth Wisconsin Lake Woods and Limnology StudiesTrying to Overcome the FCC 915Mhz Power LimitationsOuter Islands, Chesapeake Bay14 Miles to and on Hog IslandFrom Field Station to IslandThe Alaskan Wildernesshttp://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htm16 Miles Down the Tanana RiverPoker Flats and Caribou Peak38 Miles from Fairbanks +100 to -60 degrees F. http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htmDark and Cold – Power Always a ProblemNow 36 Other Remote SitesMore Challenges & My Future Solutions - Tiny Mesh, Single Sensors, Fuel Cells, ScalableSmall Hydrogen Fuel Cell•Promote it as a major Policy answer to ‘Ubiquitous Broadband’ for Rural Americans•Back/Push Spectrum Reform at the FCC•Look way beyond Wi-Fi and use Fuel Cells•Get more lower frequency - shared ‘unlicensed’•Push for GPS equipped Smart Radios•Regulate out grandfathered licensed-legacy radios – 5 years either up, or out•Get the White House to dirty its mind with NTIA and the allocation of Government spectrumYOU WANT SCALABLE WIRELESS?And Give Credit where Credit is DueSome
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