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IP: We are Pretty Proud of this one
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:18:00 -0400
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> [Note: This item comes from reader Dave Hughes. DLH] At 18:41 -0700 10/8/01, Dave Hughes wrote:From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com> To: <dewayne () warpspeed com> Subject: We are Pretty Proud of this one Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:41:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 War, or no war, progress continues. After overcoming a bunch of obstacles on the ground, in getting a complex set of wireless devices to work - connected to sets of 'data loggers' in a wilderness area of central Alaska, then linking the serial wireless links to the Internet at a Rocket Range 38 miles northeast of Fairbanks at Caribou Peak and Poker Flats the University did their job back in warm Fairbanks, and completed the link to a universally accessible web site. Which is even used by the US Military. Take a look at: <http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrw-hourly.html> and you will see the cryptic notations of real-time data coming from the land of snow and blow and awfully cold temperatures in places one can only reach by ATVs - in season. (we are braced for -60 in the low ground in the dead of winter). They have chosen to grab the data daily, although it is possible to get it complete and real time, anytime. I'm proud of this achievement. Its one of the few complete models for environmental and biological scientists that doesn't require the entire US Treasury, big rigs, licensed radios, and non-scalable solutions, or accessibility only by specialized software from select locations. Your taxes at work. I'll demonstrate it at a scientific gathering end of this month. (This is linked to the possible use of our wireless expertise to monitoring water and other vital resources for the earliest possible signs of terrorist tampering out beyond easy patrolling) In a week or so I will have the narrative, with still pictures AND our first trial online 'video' (Quicktime, later MS Media format) of parts of the project online on <http://wireless.oldcolo.com>. From now on you get movies! Footnote. The area of Alaska we did this in is apparently more dangerous than we thought. Its not that far from Livingood where that drunken sourdough nut fired a bullet into the pipeline. He might have been plinking our radios next! Guess I'll go armed into the Alaskan tundra next time. <grin> I carried a gat in Korean winter about 50 years ago. Guess I can do it again! Dave Hughes dave () oldcolo com
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