Hughes Wireless Expedition to Everest 2003
In 2003, Dave Hughes helped - long distance by email and VOIP - Tsering Sherpa get a Cybercafe going at the 18,000 foot climbers Base Camp at Mount Everest, using Wi-Fi radios besides a Satellite system. Tsering, seeing that Hughes had experience in installing wireless links to the Internet from very remote places, asked for help in his home village of Namche, where he had his own satellite served Cybercafe, but with only two computers attached.
And Tsering was aware of Hughes work revitalizing economically 'Old Colorado City' in Colorado Springs, using in part technology and wireless. He asked for help.
Hughes agreed to come, pro bono, donating the equipment, and see what he could do for the Sherpas of Nepal.
This Album documents that expedition of October-November 2004 from its physical and technical preparation through its added project of supporting 'Distance Learning by Wireless in the poor village of Thame' - which is another album here.
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Date: 10/04/2003
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 145 items
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Namche, Nepal, 12,000 feet high
Date: 10/11/2003
Views: 3769
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Edward, David XIII, Dave Hughes. On Barr Trail
Six weeks of daily climbs up 2,000 feet in 2 hours made me at 75 Years old fit enough
Date: 10/04/2003
Views: 2736
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Dave Hughes in Old Colorado City
This is an AP photo of Dave in his Old Colorado City Communications Internet Service Office and Lab
Date: 04/01/2004
Views: 1676
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The Trek Trail from Lukla to Namche
Date: 10/09/2003
Views: 2012
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Idea - Possible Placement of Radio Relay
Without ever having seen Namche, Nepal, only Topo Maps and the one Photo of the Town in a Bowl with a deep canyon at one end, and a 20,000 foot moutain across the river, this was my first cut at how to mount the needed relay radio to 'see' the town.
Date: 10/13/2003
Views: 1821
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Dave and Marty Start to Configure Radios
We got the IP addresses for preconfiguring by email from Tsering's Cybercafe Satellite link
Date: 10/07/2003
Views: 2090
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The Proposed Wireless Network
Date: 10/09/2003
Views: 2587
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Smartbridge AP, 12v Battery, Solar Panel
The SB 'Total' can act as Access Point, Relay, or Client
Date: 10/09/2003
Views: 2237
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SB Client Radio
Date: 10/09/2003
Views: 1712
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