The next meeting of the Southern California Wireless Users Group will be meeting Thursday 11/21/02 at 7pm (Pacific).
Main presentation meetings are held monthly on the fourth Thursday of the month (November and December, third Thursday). Our next meeting's presentation will be given by Trevor Marshall, PhD, http://www.TrevorMarshall.com, a frequent speaker and writer on wireless subjects. Dr. Marshall has spoken at Comdex and will be speaking at the upcoming 802.11 conference in Santa Clara. Some topics that he will cover: - PCMCIA Card Antennas - Access point antennas - Signal, Noise, Propagation, Attenuation - Multipath Reflection and Distortion - Reasons to Limit Signal to Workspace - High Gain Antennas: Gain vs. Frequency Other topics: - Hot news! Cheap 3g mobile data, full details at meeting! - Pasadena Area wireless network, Updates and maps. - Report on SOCALWUG wireless hotspot at SCALE event. Who should attend: Business people interested in wireless People working in the wireless community Security professionals The press or media People interested in meeting others involved in the wireless community Those interested in lively technical discussions ranging from from beginner to expert People new to wireless Agenda (times are approximate): Cost: Free! 7:00 Mixing - business/friend contacts 7:15 Logon> Introductions to the group and key members 7:20 Announcements 7:25 3g and Pasadena area WLAN 7:30 Presentation by Trevor Marshall, PhD 8:00 Q&A on presentation 8:15 Open discussion - Current events, news, technical questions, newbie questions 8:30 Mixing - break off into groups of discussions. 9:00 Logoff> When: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Thursday, November 21th, 2002 Where: Pasadena IHOP Restaraunt (rear meeting room) 3521 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 http://ihop.know-where.com/ihop/cgi/site?00006 Note: Please come hungry and support our host. Food served during meeting. Seperate checks. More information http://www.socalwug.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- To receive these announcments please subscribe to our announce only mailing list. Send email to: majordomo at pasadena.net On the first line of the message: subscribe socalwug-announce -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
