Internet Radio Signal Pioneers
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Dave Hughes Delivers Universal Net Access
READ WHAT DAVE RECOMMENDS CAN BE DONE TO GET ALL SCHOOLS WIRED WITHOUT SPENDING ALL THE MONEY THAT WE THE TAX PAYERS ARE SPENDING!!!
Dave Hughes
dave@oldcolo.com
6 North 24th Street Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Voice 719.660-5764 Fax 719-636-1940
Dave Hughes is probably the premier technical and
policy facilitator in grass-roots community networking. In 1981, he started what may be the first bulletin
board system (BBS) whose goal was to empower the local public politically. Since then, Hughes has traveled
around the world in an effort to bring some of the most disenfranchised and isolated communities into the
electronic age. "I told my sons to bury me in a grave with space enough for an Internet connection so
I
can come back and keep giving 'em hell."
WIFI Wireless Wide Area Networks for School Districts by Dave Hughes
See LARAMIE INTERNET ACCESS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like The future of the
internet is in peril, thanks to surveillance, net neutrality and other assaults. But there are communities
that are building their own By Nathan Schneider Jul 26 2017
Like many Americans, I don't have a choice about my internet service provider. I live in a subsidized
housing
development where there's only one option, and it happens to be, by some accounts, the most hated company in
the United States. Like its monstrous peers, my provider is celebrating that Congress has recently permitted
it to spy on me. Although it pretends to support the overwhelming majority of the country's population who
oppose net neutrality, it has been trying to bury the principle of an open internet for years and, under
Trump's Federal Communications Commission, is making good progress. I can already feel my browsing habits
shift. I'm reigning in curiosities a bit more, a bit more anxious about who might be watching. I've taken to
using a VPN, like people have to do to access the open internet from China. And the real effects go deeper
than personal anxieties. Although the fight for an open internet tends to have Silicon Valley tech bros at
the
forefront, it's a racial justice issue; arbitrary powers for corporations tend not to help marginalized
populations. It's a rural justice issue, too. The big service providers pushing the deregulation spree are
the
same companies that have so far refused to bring broadband to less-dense areas. They are holding
under-served
communities hostage by proposing a deal: roll back rights to private, open media, and we'll give you cheaper
internet. Trump's Republican party is taking the bait. This is not a deal we need to make. It shouldn't be
necessary to choose between universal access and basic rights. But this deal has been a long time coming,
thanks to long campaigns to convince us there is no other way. It turns out, though, there is. Up in the
mountains west of me, a decade and a half ago, the commercial internet service providers weren't bringing
high-speed connectivity to residents, so a group of neighbors banded together and created their own internet
cooperative. Big providers love making their jobs sound so complicated that nobody else could do it, but
these
people set up their own wireless network, and they still maintain it. Of course, their service remains
pretty
rudimentary; the same can't be said of Longmont, Colorado, a city 20 minutes from where I live in the
opposite
direction. There, the city-owned NextLight fiber network provides some of the fastest connectivity in the
country for a reasonable price. In Longmont, all the surveillance and anti-neutrality stuff simply isn't
relevant. “As a not-for-profit community-owned broadband provider, our loyalty is entirely to our
customer-owners,” a spokesman recently told the local paper. “That will not change, regardless of what
happens
to the FCC regulations in question.” Municipalities across the country, from Santa Monica to Chattanooga,
have
quietly created their own internet service providers - and for the most part residents love them, especially
in comparison to the competition. A major reason more towns haven't followed suit is that the big telecoms
companies have lobbied hard to discourage or outright ban community broadband, pressuring many states to
enact
legal barriers. It's happening again in West Virginia. But the tide may be turning. Consumer Reports has
taken
up a crusade against these restrictions. Colorado has one on the books, but jurisdictions can opt out by
referendum. Following Longmont's example, in the 2016 election, the citizens of 26 cities and counties in
the
state opened the door to building internet service providers of their own. Local government isn't the only
path for creating internet service accountable to its users. On the far western end of the state, an old
energy cooperative called Delta Montrose Electric Association has created a new offering for its
member-owners, Elevate Fiber. It delivers a remarkable 100 megabits per second - upload anddownload - to
homes
for $50 a month. Electric co-ops once brought power to rural areas to people that investor-owned companies
wouldn't serve, and now they're starting to do the same with broadband. The Obama-era FCC supported these
efforts. Donald Trump has voiced support for rural broadband in general, but it remains to be seen whether
that will mean subsidies for big corporations, whose existing customers despise them, or opportunities for
communities to take control of the internet for themselves. Whatever happens in Washington, we can start
building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating
community broadband in your community? [snip]
Entrenched interests
tried
to sue inventor of radio
by Andy Oram Dec. 12, 2001
This date marks a sterling moment in the history of technology: one hundred years ago, on December 12, 1901,
Gugliemo Marconi became the first person to pick up radio signals transmitted across an ocean.
The triumph was quickly followed by one of the most ignominious acts in the history of technology: one of
the
most powerful firms in communications, the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, tried to stop Marconi from
developing his innovation by threatening a lawsuit.
Women Pioneers
If you would like to see a remarkable US Patent filed by the 'the most beautiful woman in the
world'
of 1940, actress Hedy Lamarr.
The trophy wife of arms merchant Fritz Mandl, she entertained both the German and Italian
general staffs as well as Hitler (she was Jewish), and Mussolini themselves. But by 1937 she was tired of
being kept, so she drugged her maid and escaped through an open window. She wrangled a ride to the U.S.—and
Hollywood—with Louis B. Mayer. There, she happened to meet composer George Antheil, who had written a piece
for multiple player pianos. Sitting together at the keyboard, she realized that they were both playing the
same piece only an octave apart, which gave her the idea of multiple radio frequencies broadcast one after
another from a ship to a torpedo. With the help of an electrical engineer, the idea was patented. But the
Navy
passed on the idea as ludicrous, and the patent lapsed. Then in 1957, Sylvania Electronics took the idea and
developed it for communications; the technology is the basis for all cellular phones today, GPS and is used
in
the Milstar defense communications satellite as well.
The First Frequency Hopping Inventor AND the most beautiful women in the 40's who first described 'frequency hopping' - the basis of many advanced spread spectrum radios today. Morse Code Converter
When Navajos Fought Japanese for Ne-He-Mah
By DAVID KAHN
It is the most romantic story in American cryptology. To keep the Japanese from getting American secrets in
World War II, Navajos - among the original Americans - spoke over the radio in their native tongue.
Welcome to Hamelot Radio by Peter Jennings C31LJ
Freeware of interest to contesters and DXers
VE3SUN DX Monitor Tools for the Intelligent DXer
Download the latest version
DX Monitor is a standalone Windows program which monitors the DX announcements available on the internet at
DX Summit, HB9DRV and connections to one or more local and international DX Cluster Telnet
Servers.
New DX spots are displayed in the main window with user selectable bands, fonts, colors, and highlighting of
alerts and local spotters. A band map tracks the current stations on the air by frequency. Maps show the
openings with buttons to select bands and times.
The predicted signal strength of the spotted station at your QTH can be displayed
with
each spot. A 24 hour propagation
prediction by band takes only one click.
DX Monitor builds a database of DX Spots, Announcements, and WWV information and includes many tools which
can
be used by DXers to improve their chances of working a new country.
See the AARL log book of the world.
Experiments in airborne BASIC—"buzzing" computer code over FM radio
Before the 'Net, Finland created a primetime program-sharing radio service. A remarkable radio show that
changed the landscape for him and a generation of Finnish technology lovers—a show that literally broadcast
code over the airwaves. "If you wrote a piece of code in a computer, saved it on a [Commodore]
C-cassette, took that cassette out and listened to it with an ordinary cassette recorder you heard
sounds," Lehtonen explained. "But as sounds could be copied to another tape and as sounds could be
transmitted over radio, then why should it not be possible to receive even these sounds of the code, record
them with a C-cassette recorder and have the recorded sounds do their trick in another computer?" In
other words—why couldn't you distribute code by simply playing it over the radio while enthusiasts taped
it for later use?