Re: Solar Powered Wi-Fi

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 16:31 +0000, tom-XOQLl3F0metWk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
> Umm I think the mt hood idea is better...  I don't want to see any of you naked

Heh, maybe so, but I still think It'd make for a great article
in the willyweek. Imagine the headline: "Local Geeks Bare it All for
Free WiFi" and then a (tasteful) picture of the wireless, ahem, gear.
That's even slashdot-worthy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caleb Phillips <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:14:42 
> To:[email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ptp-general] 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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