Here's an idea: float your wireless access point. Apparently in Arizona they've text messaged using weather balloons. Obviously a WAP at 100,000 feet wouldn't do much good to anybody, but balloning is sort of a neat idea...Perhaps at amusment parks, or national, state, or local parks they could put up balloons? Perhaps at Football games, or events like Wimbledon and the PGA Tour? Many sporting events and facilities already have goodyear blimps and such floating around. I dont' think anybody would mind a BAWUG or boingo blimp floating around Pac Bell Park on summer afternoons. Plus it'd be great advertising.
I seem to remember hearing something on NPR last year about testing flying a plane around large metro areas and using some method to transfer large amounts of data around a city. Also I seem to remember recently some discussion of the US military putting blimps over large metro areas to serve as permanent radar instalations. Floating objects is apparently the new thing. Perhaps it would look a bit silly to have balloons floating every other street corner downtown but it would work well in city parks and other open areas. weather ballooning with Space Data Corp: http://timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBUMCXEP2D.html Will Preissner >===== Original Message From "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:56:53PM -0500, John Foust wrote: >> At 04:06 PM 6/21/2002 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >> >LCM 352 and PCM 352 -- which one has the jacks (and no onboard antenna >> >at all) was mentioned on this list about a month ago, when *I* asked. >> >> PCM has no jacks, just an internal antenna. > >P == Plugin. Got it. > >Cheers, >-- jra >-- >Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 >The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think >Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" > -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") >-- >general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
