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 Stuff100mw, 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 E-mail, 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

http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htm

16 Miles Down the Tanana River

Poker Flats and Caribou Peak38 Miles from Fairbanks +100 to -60 degrees F.

http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htm

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

• www.linkingeverest.com

• http://wireless.oldcolo.com

• http://www.cookreport.com/

• dave@oldcolo.com