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Dawn DiPietro | 1 Mar 2007 01:49

[WISPA] CALEA Session at ISPCON

All,

Anyone headed to this session at ISPCON? It should make for some 
interesting discussion.

Track: WIRELESS SERVICES | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

W9: CALEA and You: Advice, Strategies and Solutions
Peering into the future of VoIP is difficult, but by examining lessons 
learned in the last five years, it’s possible to predict the service 
challenges that will face next generation VoIP providers in the coming 
months. This discussion touches on the reasons why two business 
methodologies for VoIP deployments will continue: the business market 
vs. residential market. We'll also cover the impact of CALEA and other 
regulatory requirements and challenges yet to be addressed for the SMB 
market. We'll look at how non-traditional service providers will affect 
the competitive landscape and the impact of video and IPTV service 
delivery on platform architecture.

Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
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wispa | 1 Mar 2007 04:43

[WISPA] Makes you feel a bit... errrr.... what's the word?

http://www.arnewsline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=

If you scroll down a bit...

Quote:
RADIO LAW: SENATOR AIDS UNLICENSED BROADCASER TO RETURN TO THE AIR

A high ranking Democrat and leader in the Senate has helped an unlicensed 
radio station return to the airwaves. This, after the FCC acted to take it 
off the air following an inspection revealed that it had no license. Amateur 
Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, is in Scottsdale, Arizona with more:

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Rod Moses, the owner of Radio Goldfield Broadcast Inc., was given special 
temporary authority to go back on the air with his low-power radio station in 
a January 29th letter from the Federal Communications Commission. A letter 
generated by pressure brought by Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid. 

Based the action on a complaint filed with the agency, FCC enforcement agents 
came to Moses' trailer on June 9, 2006. This is the location that also houses 
his radio station, The FCC engineers inspected the station, and then 
requested that it be shut it down. Moses complied but then wrote to Senator 
Reed asking his assistance in getting back on the air. He explained that he 
had been running the station he calls Radio Goldfield since March 2005. In 
that time frame he had been broadcasting community news as well as oldies 
from an MP3 player. He wanted a low power license but had been informed by 
the FCC that the period to apply had long ago expired.

Reed apparently got Moses letter and in turn wrote to the FCC. In his letter
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Bob Moldashel | 1 Mar 2007 04:50

Re: [WISPA] Point To Point Link - What is it?

Mike,

We have installed 25+  links of Exalt.  Feel free to contact me if I can 
help.

516-551-1131

Bob Moldashel
Lakeland Comm
516-551-1131

Mike Delp wrote:

>http://www.midconqc.com/images/IMG_1372.JPG
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>http://www.midconqc.com/images/IMG_1375.JPG
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>Something doesn't work at this location and we have been asked to look into
>it.  I am not familiar with this.
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>Thanks for any and all help
>
>Mike
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Bob Moldashel | 1 Mar 2007 04:53

Re: [WISPA] Point To Point Link - What is it?

Also....nothing like going to the costs of buying a dual polarity 
antenna for a radio that has 2 antenna ports then not putting a cable to 
connect it!  :-)

Gotta luv it....

-B-


Mike Delp wrote:

>http://www.midconqc.com/images/IMG_1372.JPG
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>http://www.midconqc.com/images/IMG_1375.JPG
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>Something doesn't work at this location and we have been asked to look into
>it.  I am not familiar with this.
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>Thanks for any and all help
>
>Mike
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Kurt Fankhauser | 1 Mar 2007 08:24

RE: [WISPA] Point To Point Link - What is it?


Kurt Fankhauser
WAVELINC
114 S. Walnut St.
Bucyrus, OH 44820
419-562-6405
www.wavelinc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-bounces <at> wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces <at> wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Bob Moldashel
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:53 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Point To Point Link - What is it?

Also....nothing like going to the costs of buying a dual polarity 
antenna for a radio that has 2 antenna ports then not putting a cable to

connect it!  :-)

Gotta luv it....

-B-


Mike Delp wrote:

>http://www.midconqc.com/images/IMG_1372.JPG
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>http://www.midconqc.com/images/IMG_1375.JPG
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Jack Unger | 1 Mar 2007 05:30

Re: [WISPA] Makes you feel a bit... errrr.... what's the word?

Mark,

I agree completely with your closing sentiment that "Everything we do 
should be aimed at providing ourselves protection from being wiped out 
due to pressure from Congress or the Big Boys". I don't however 
understand your "beef" with this particular FCC action. Mr. Moses was 
and is now again providing a clear and valuable public service to the 
community of Goldfield Nevada which (if you've ever been there) is a 
near ghost-town that's fighting to continue to exist as a community. It 
seems that Mr. Moses's broadcasting is providing a significant service 
to the town while harming nobody. Goldfield is located in the desert 
three hours north of Las Vegas and six hours south of Reno. This is a 
desolate rural area with little to no local broadcasters so no risk of 
interference to anyone.

http://maps.yahoo.com/index.php#q1=goldfield%2C+nv.&trf=0&mvt=m&lon=-117.240601&lat=37.714245&mag=11

Mr. Moses is harming no one and he is obviously helping his community. I 
say (figuratively) "more power to him". As to your comment that Senator 
Reid is corrupt... well I'm not even going to go there. I don't want to 
start ranting about the very real endemic, destructive political 
corruption that has been on display in our Nation's Capital recently.

To end on a positive note, I'll just repeat that I agree with your 
ending sentiment that we (WISPs) need to do everything to protect 
ourselves from being wiped out by the "Big Boys". Mr. Moses isn't trying 
to wipe us out, AT&T IS trying and has been doing a very good job of 
that. Let's keep our eyes on the right ball.

Respectfully,
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Rick Smith | 1 Mar 2007 06:19

RE: [WISPA] STOOPID linksys / netgear / etc

That's fine, as long as they file their CALEA and 477 Forms :)

-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-bounces <at> wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces <at> wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Jeromie Reeves
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:09 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] STOOPID linksys / netgear / etc

What if they wanted to share the network but only with people who
could figure that out? =-)

On 2/28/07, David E. Smith <dave <at> mvn.net> wrote:
> Rick Smith wrote:
> > Can't vendors make it so that whatever you use as the securing KEY can't
be
> > contained in the hostname, essid or anywhere else ?  Common Sense...
> >
> I'm sure they could, but as soon as a customer decides this is what they
> want to do, and can't, angry phone calls will ensue.
>
> No matter how silly the request, it's pretty much guaranteed that
> someone, somewhere, will actually WANT to set up their network that way
> and have reasons that are (at least in their own heads) perfectly valid
> for wanting to set it up in that way and no other. A friend of mine uses
> WPA and made the network key his SSID, but that was actually his
> honeypot network. (He's a little cracked like that.)
>
> David Smith
> MVN.net
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George Rogato | 1 Mar 2007 08:57

[WISPA] Free advertizing

Got some free adverizing the other day out of nowhere:

http://www.oregonfast.net/gofast/DuneCityPlug/

Just proves that if you work hard enough word of mouth advertizing works.

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wispa | 1 Mar 2007 09:46

Re: [WISPA] Makes you feel a bit... errrr.... what's the word?

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:30:10 -0800, Jack Unger wrote
> Mark,
> 
> I agree completely with your closing sentiment that "Everything we 
> do should be aimed at providing ourselves protection from being 
> wiped out due to pressure from Congress or the Big Boys". I don't 
> however understand your "beef" with this particular FCC action. 

It's just about undue influence, Jack.  Where's the justice here?  What about 
all the other "pirate" stations that don't happen to get a Senator to write 
to the FCC to turn the enforcement / fine into an STA?  Aren't some of 
them "valuable to their community" too?  

Mr. 
> Moses was and is now again providing a clear and valuable public 
> service to the community of Goldfield Nevada which (if you've ever 
> been there) is a near ghost-town that's fighting to continue to 
> exist as a community. It seems that Mr. Moses's broadcasting is 
> providing a significant service to the town while harming nobody. 
> Goldfield is located in the desert three hours north of Las Vegas 
> and six hours south of Reno. This is a desolate rural area with 
> little to no local broadcasters so no risk of interference to anyone.

Hey, I don't object to the idea of inexpensive ways of building a low-power 
AM station.   Had the Senator gotten a dozen colleagues to say "man, this is 
a great idea, let's make a way for tiny stations to spring up in small and 
remote communities and enhance their community.  I'd be all for promoting 
a "better than part 15 .1w" set of regulations to allow 1 or 5 or 10 watt 
community service stations without delays for application windows and onerous 
recordkeeping, regulatory burdens, blah, blah.
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wispa | 1 Mar 2007 09:50

Re: [WISPA] Free advertizing

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:57:15 -0800, George Rogato wrote

I LIKE it :)

I've gotten a bunch... well, HECK, every last customer is from "word of 
mouth" and lately we're growing as fast as we can fund it. 

Not really fast enough, though.  

I plan on some serious marketing come the end of this school year and my 
partner gets out of school, so we can both work full time.  

Now, just to find that extra $10K I need to stock up the equipment and carry 
me through that 90 days to break even...

> Got some free adverizing the other day out of nowhere:
> 
> http://www.oregonfast.net/gofast/DuneCityPlug/
> 
> Just proves that if you work hard enough word of mouth advertizing works.
> 
> -- 
> George Rogato
> 
> Welcome to WISPA
> 
> www.wispa.org
> 
> http://signup.wispa.org/
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