By Eric
Stradford, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired
AMWS
September 28, 2017, Virtual -- After taking a knee in prayer, one historically disadvantaged American got up with a
revelation. Puerto Rico needs an angel!
Or, at the very least, some enterprising neighbors thinking like angels.
Television
reporters use satellite phones for emergency communication, connecting citizens
on the mainland with survivors in Puerto Rico.
If anything is to be learned from this year’s unprecedented disasters, it’s
a lesson in healing, feeding, housing, learning, earning, living and giving. “Carrying out the spirit of the original Free
African Society” means equipping boots-on-the-ground forces with methods and
means to do whatever God needs you to do—individually and collectively.
A few years
back, YouthUSA's program team investigated diverse methods for deploying wireless
telecommunication. We already knew about
technologies for military use—some classified.
We reached out to presidents and
or institutional advancement departments in 106 Historically Black Colleges and
Universities with a vision of America’s future from an historically
disadvantaged perspective.
In 2002, we
explored methods and means for engaging HBCU students in Small Business
Technology Transfer Research through a newly established federal agency called
Department of Homeland Security.
One of the
technologies we had hoped to explore offered an alternative to land-based WiFi
towers, which we now know might be blown down if the wind is strong enough.
Rapid
deployment of HALO
might have addressed an immediate communications void even for a remote Caribbean
island. Broadband wireless millimeter
wavelength services provided from a High Altitude Long Operation (HALO™)
Aircraft are now feasible. HALO emphasized the conceptual design of a
"bandwidth-on-demand" wireless network whose data rates to and from
the subscriber will measure in the multi-megabit per second range. A variety of
metropolitan area spectrum bands offer the needed bandwidth. An attractive
choice was the LMDS band near 28 GHz.
Can it
work? Well, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE when
you believe “I can achieve whatever I believe I can achieve.
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