Welcome Felix!
Sounds like you've been around the block a time or two. Very cool.
Did you know that there is an associate WISPA membership level? It allows
you to be involved, sit on the board etc. I hope you'll be more involved
here.
I think that many of the issues that affect us are likely to also affect the
SCADA folks these days.
PLEASE tell me that you didn't do like the SCADA goofballs here in Odessa
and put omni antennas at every site! Even the ones that only see ONE other
site. I'm gonna have to work a LOT harder than I should have if I ever put
in 900mhz. Hell, I already have gear at half of their sites, they should
have just used my wireless system to do the SCADA collections. Our uptime
is very very good. All they ended up with is a bunch of money to overbuild
an existing network!
laters,
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix A. Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits?
Marlon, I just joined this list and agree with your
recommendations to supplment with a part time job.
Prior to my current position, I worked at a winery on
swing shift from 4 pm to 12 midnite and did my
consulting work in the day time. Whew. And later I
got hired by a big company in fixed wireless
infrastructure with one of the larger manufacturers.
By the way, I had a chance to visit Ehprata
Washington when I visited the Grant County PUD folks.
Very nice up there. I am originally from the rural
area of Kings River, California, near the Kings Canyon
National Park Hwy 180 Sierra Foothills. Worked for the
US Forest Service, PG&E in Power Distribution and
Energy Conservation, Chevron in clean diesals, and now
involved in RF networks wireless. We used wirleess
in power distribution for our SCADA networks albeit in
narrowband. Broadband provides interesting
opportunities for the enterprise.
The rural areas of San Joaquin Valley still searching
for wireless. One of my friends is putting up a
system. Using his own money. I always thought a lease
program is ideal for wireless because of the change in
generation of equipment. For example, Canopy is now
Canopy Advantage. And other manufacturers are going
to new generation.
Good luck to you all here on this list. I am also
involved in WiMax (or I should say pre-WiMax).
Felix Lopez
--- "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With 11 customers I HIGHLY suggest you get a part
time job. Something
flexible if you can.
Taking that financial stress off will help you do a
much better job.
I drove tractor, did consulting, speaking, equipment
sales, wrote articles
etc. Whatever I could to make extra money. If I'd
not have done those
things, I'd have failed in this business for sure.
Costs were too high and
I had too much debt stacked up. And my wife works
part time half the year
so she's not a lot of help in feeding the family.
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits?
>I will admit that I have a lot of potential, but
potential doesn't mean
>dollars now. More than once I've looked at finding
a part time job (again)
>so I have some money to invest in my operations.
>
> I need more equipment.
> I need more marketing.
> I need developers.
> I have no or little money to pay for the above.
;-)
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits?
>
>
>> Yeah, but you have all kinds of things going on.
I see you on all the
>> various lists looking for everything from fiber
paths to long distance..
>> Heck, one of these days, I may even buy something
from you.
>>
>> George
>>
>> Mike Hammett wrote:
>>> I wish I had 30. ;-)
>>>
>>> 11 paying customers here.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George
Rogato"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:28 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mike Hammett wrote:
>>>>> I joined this list last week and already
consider leaving due to the
>>>>> drama.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It may feel a little like drama Mike, but calea
is important and some
>>>> people have very strong feelings one way or the
other. It's good to see
>>>> opinions, Ed saying he has 30 subs and will be
out of business is
>>>> informative and compelling. Some of us have
operations that can carry
>>>> the weight of the calea burden and others
don't. Sometimes we all
>>>> forget about the other guys circumstances. So
dialogue is good.
>>>>
>>>> It's the ranting that gets old.
>>>>
>>>> Information is good, the more the better.
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