[wsfii-discuss] Re: Back in Goa

Mon Dec 18 15:46:11 UTC 2006

Congrats guys, looks like fun stuff - and good that some of you took this
forward

ram

On 12/18/06, Fred Pook <fredpook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Warren and all,
>
> All good news coming from your side, and lots of good news from Goa! After
> one month of wireless testing we (Kloschi, Daniel and Me) succeeded in
> building a fairly large village mesh of about 1X1 km under the coconut palm
> trees and a 1 shot through the the leaves from the gateway location on a
> high building at the main road. All this fun was taking place while not only
> being obstructed by the trees and smashed by the sun and heat but shortage
> of the right pigtails and the constant mysteriously disaparing of equipment.
> Maybe the last had more to do with the quantity of cold beers consumed ....
>
> After having proven the working mesh we are getting requests for permanent
> instalations by long term staying foreigners and locals alike. Photo's of
> this will be posted soon, i hope.
>
> I have been for a 4 day visit to the IIITM- Kerala institute on invitation
> by Prof. Venkatesh and met up with Rene and Hugo to deliver a 2 day workshop
> on meshing at the TechnoPark in Trivendrum. Also there is a 4 node demo mesh
> alive, and powered by Solar! After some research I found a solar panel
> manufactorer in Trivendrum and me and a student Sivchand
> managed to get a solar panel set for free.
>
>
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