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