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3dB Wireless Adventures & Wireless Technology Rants.

Entries for June, 2010

Have a Motorola Droid & tired of waiting for Moto/Verizon for Froyo AKA Android 2.2?

Well Peter Alfonso is here to save us from the slow corporate giants! YAY!  All you gotta do is root your droid & you gain access to all the amazing features Pete whips out!  You can find the information about his Bugless Beast Rom Here.  I have been running his Roms on my phone for [...]

HSMM 420Mhz Project

I haven’t mentioned it on this blog yet, but amateur radio was my first hobby ever. My call is KG4VCF.  I have a friend that for the past several years has tried to get me interested in D-Star.  I looked it over & just didn’t see any potential with this technology. The very first thing [...]

Ice + Mt. Pisgah + Temporary Grid Antenna = Doom.

This past winter we had a very brutal winter here in Western North Carolina.  We were the victim of falling ice on several occasions this past winter.  What I learned this winter was if your deployment is 2500ft in elevation or higher & you don’t have prime top space on the tower you are installing [...]

Unlimited Calls! Yeah!

Awhile back I made a video about how to make unlimited calls using your android based smart phone.  I will share that here now too :)

Solar install

About a month ago I was contacted by someone who needed low latent high speed connectivity that lives in a very remote location in Waynesville, NC.  The only way we had LOS (Line Of Sight) to his home from our cell site was by way of building a solar repeater.  We used two Ubiquiti Rocket M5′s [...]

My first post.

Hello! My name is J.J. Boyd  I will be using this blog to describe to the masses (anyone who will read my cometary) anything that intrests me.  Which will mostly consist of Wireless Technology, RF theory, SolarTech, & IP routing.