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10 YEARS WITH WIRELESS

10 YEARS WITH WIRELESS. From Jungles to the Himalayas. Dave Hughes Old Colorado City Communications. My 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

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10 YEARS WITH WIRELESS

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  1. 10 YEARS WITH WIRELESS From Jungles to the Himalayas Dave Hughes Old Colorado City Communications

  2. My 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, Work

  3. The 6 Day Trek to Mt Everest, AFTER flying to Lukla

  4. Big Overview

  5. 19,000 Foot KalaPataar and 17,500 Foot Khumbu Glacier

  6. Donated Cisco Wi-Fi Stuff100mw, POE, 350 as Bridge, Relay, Access Point, 13.5 dB Directional, 12v Battery/inverter, Solar Power

  7. Starting From 11,000 Feet Namche

  8. The Trekker, Base Camp Beat

  9. Our Virtual Yeti’s 18,000 Foot Wireless E-mail, Data, VOIP, Network

  10. Base Camp, VSAT and Cyber Cafe

  11. Tsering/Hughes Namche Bazaar Sherpa Community Network Plan

  12. My Next Hack in Nepal?

  13. Wireless in the Jungle - Billions of Gallons of Water, Heat, Canopy

  14. Puerto Rican Environment

  15. Towers, Trees, Rain, Rats, Data Loggers and Wireless Solutions

  16. A Now Happy Scientist’s Data Collection from out in the Jungle

  17. Unsolved Jungle Challenges

  18. Broadband Wars With British Telecom. Or, Wales Connected and Rebelling against the Insufferable Brits, Wirelessly

  19. Wales, 3 Million and Lots of Small Celtic Cultures Towns and Farms

  20. Welsh Political Action - Dafydd ap Hugh (me) and Ministers of the National Assembly

  21. The First Concept Cut for the ‘e-fro’ Wireless Solution

  22. The Field Trial - Bangor to Bethesda – North Wales

  23. North Wisconsin Lake Woods and Limnology Studies

  24. Trying to Overcome the FCC 915Mhz Power Limitations

  25. Outer Islands, Chesapeake Bay

  26. 14 Miles to and on Hog Island

  27. From Field Station to Island

  28. The Alaskan Wilderness http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htm

  29. 16 Miles Down the Tanana River

  30. Poker Flats and Caribou Peak38 Miles from Fairbanks +100 to -60 degrees F. http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htm

  31. Dark and Cold – Power Always a Problem

  32. Now 36 Other Remote Sites

  33. More Challenges & My Future Solutions - Tiny Mesh, Single Sensors, Fuel Cells, Scalable

  34. Small Hydrogen Fuel Cell

  35. YOU WANT SCALABLE WIRELESS? • 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 spectrum

  36. And Give Credit where Credit is Due

  37. Some Contacts • www.linkingeverest.com • http://wireless.oldcolo.com • http://www.cookreport.com/ • dave@oldcolo.com

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