WISP consulting beginning

I have been involved with the WISP community for the last 15 Years, and I will highlight some of those activities.  I started out following Part 15 Mailing lists, and saw the potential for network accessibility, which is a major step expanding LAN to more of a WAN environment.  It expands a private network over a large geographic area (almost like a WAN) using wireless technology to connect customer locations to the providers network.


I started working for PDQ Link installing Access Points on Towers, and CPE devices art customer premises.  I helped with several trade shows (WISPCON). 


The first wireless devices deployed were Devices designed around the Orinoco Silver and gold PCMCIA cards.  They had a limitation of 26mW.  I also worked with Motorola Canopy devices, and the next one were the SmartBridges devices that were 200mW.


My second wireless consulting client is still in the WISP business.  Nathan and Jason from WISPER had me install their first Canopy cluster on a tower in Fairview Heights   I mat Charles Wu the trade shows, and he trained me with a Comtrain certification for tower climbing.  I installed some microwave gear for him as a part of the Kankakee County 911 system.  I also climbed my first mono-pole tower near the Joliet raceway.  I then started working with Larry Yunker at Cyber Broadcasting doing tower and customer installs.  We installed about a dozen tower locations and about 200 customer installs the first year.  Larry sold the company to a local competitor, and I moved on to several regional freelance locations, until I started working consistently with WISPER expanding their Metro St. Louis footprint.  I also did some specialized point to point high capacity links with Orthogon and Canopy Back-haul products for a regional Health Care Group.  I started working part time as an employee for WISPER, traveling from my home town of Coal Valley, IL. to metro St. Louis for a couple of years.