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Wireless and RTLS Update

by Hans|Published December 8, 2010|1 comment

Some of the latest happenings in wireless, just in time for Wireless Wednesday:

Steven J. Crowley’s always interesting Experimental License Updates.
Why broadcasters need FM on cell phones – it’s all about the money. Hat Tip: Steven J. Crowley.
Wireless guru Shayan Sanyal has a new blog. Check out the debut post: Sky rockets in flight? It’s time to get real about satellite internet broadband.
The U.S. Navy ordered radio operators to listen for Martians in 1924, according to Daily Galaxy.
Mandatory cell phone jammers in your car? There will be if Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood gets his way.
That 22 meter reflector antenna on LightSquared’s SkyTerra 1 satellite? The antenna is having trouble deploying properly. Previously on ÆtherCzar: Orbiting 22m Dish Antenna to Provide 4G Service
The Air Force warns service members to avoid geolocation services.
RTLS vendor Awarepoint raised $9M and has a new CEO.
And Awarepoint CTO, Matt Perkins, discusses ZigBee RTLS.

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Hans

Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His latest work is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and explains his unique solution to wave particle duality at the Fields & Energy Substack.

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