- Testing Metrix Pebble EVDO/1xRTT support
- Community Wireless in a Disaster Zone (CNT | cuwireless | Radio Response)
- First look at new Triage Hardware from Iomedex
- Discussed OLSR Experiments
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
WISPA and CNT have set up a blog for the WISPA Relief Effort in Rayville, Lousiana. Donations of Equipment and cash are needed.
Check out the Flickr Photostream for ‘katrinawireless’.
At 16:29 (CST) today, RW Royal Jr. Incident Commander of the JIC (Joint Information Committee) has denied Austin Airwaves the ability to run the emergency low power FM radio station inside of the dome. This is contrary to the FCC licenses that have been issued to Austin Airwaves. However RW Royal Jr is a member of the JIC. He has decided to deny the request. When they asked why they were being turned down, they were told that the Astrodome could not provide them with electricity. When the Austin Airwaves team offered to run on battery backup, they were still denied.
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“We have a breakdown in many of the things that people rely on to deploy these systems, and then we have people whose expertise is in rubber-banding and bubble-gum-sticking and pulling together things with whatever’s at hand,” Meinrath told Wired News. “That’s very much what we need right now — people with that level of improvisation and expertise.”
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Technorati Tags: CWN, Free Networks, katrina
The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s (CNT) Wireless Community Network project (http://wcn.cnt.org) has responded to the call for technical expertise in establishing communication infrastructure for first responders and evacuees in the Gulf Coast area following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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Paul Smith and Rogers Wilson III are on the ground and providing updates on the WCN Blog.
If you want to help, contact CNT or donate some cash.
Technorati Tags: CWN, Free Networks, katrina
Sascha Meinrath and a crew of CUWiN folks are headed down to New Orleans to set up communications infrastructure. If you want to help out, contact Sascha, or donate some cash.
There’s a lot of stuff on the Internet that just goes whizzing by. I’ve started a new blog (and am trying out WordPress) called Hurricane of Weird. It supports multiple authors, and I’m looking for contributors.
Check it out.
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