Re: Solar Powered Wi-Fi

>  Crap.  And as you pointed out for everyone else, that's a lot of panels.

All this solar-powered-radio talk reminded me of something I saw while
backpacking in the Wallowas recently. I ran into a guy with a huge tube
on his backpack. I figured it was a long fly-rod, but on asking, he
(sheepishly) admitted that it was the antenna for his portable,
solar-powered ham radio kit. His plan was to hike around the Wallowas
for about 10 days and maintain contact with his ham buddies
morse-code-style.

Russell will remember that I had a similar idea (slightly modified) for
a Personal Telco field day :). The idea was to have one hop on the
impromptu network be solar-(or battery)-powered somewhere in the Mt.
Hood wilderness. Of course, this idea wasn't nearly as good as the 
Rooster rock nude-node, which I still think should be done ;).

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Caleb Phillips

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