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 You Want Scalable Wireless? Hedy Lamarr * My NSF, Company, Pro Bono, Work
The 6 Day Trek to Mt Everest, AFTER flying to Lukla
Big Overview
19,000 Foot KalaPataar and 17,500 Foot Khumbu Glacier
Donated Cisco Wi-Fi Stuff 100mw, POE, 350 as Bridge, Relay, Access Point, 13.5 dB Directional, 12v Battery/inverter, Solar Power
Starting From 11,000 Feet Namche
The Trekker, Base Camp Beat
Our Virtual Yeti’s 18,000 Foot Wireless , Data, VOIP, Network
Base Camp, VSAT and Cyber Cafe
Tsering/Hughes Namche Bazaar Sherpa Community Network Plan
My Next Hack in Nepal?
Wireless in the Jungle - Billions of Gallons of Water, Heat, Canopy
Puerto Rican Environment
Towers, Trees, Rain, Rats, Data Loggers and Wireless Solutions
A Now Happy Scientist’s Data Collection from out in the Jungle
Unsolved Jungle Challenges
Broadband Wars With British Telecom. Or, Wales Connected and Rebelling against the Insufferable Brits, Wirelessly
Wales, 3 Million and Lots of Small Celtic Cultures Towns and Farms
Welsh Political Action - Dafydd ap Hugh (me) and Ministers of the National Assembly
The First Concept Cut for the ‘e-fro’ Wireless Solution
The Field Trial - Bangor to Bethesda – North Wales
North Wisconsin Lake Woods and Limnology Studies
Trying to Overcome the FCC 915Mhz Power Limitations
Outer Islands, Chesapeake Bay
14 Miles to and on Hog Island
From Field Station to Island
The Alaskan Wilderness
16 Miles Down the Tanana River
Poker Flats and Caribou Peak 38 Miles from Fairbanks +100 to -60 degrees F.
Dark and Cold – Power Always a Problem
Now 36 Other Remote Sites
More Challenges & My Future Solutions - Tiny Mesh, Single Sensors, Fuel Cells, Scalable
Small 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 spectrum YOU WANT SCALABLE WIRELESS?
And Give Credit where Credit is Due
Some Contacts