Home Web Site of Progress, Technical, and Final Reports of the National Science Foundation Wireless Field Test Project ANI-9909218

This site is the publically available hub for reporting plans, progress reports and test results from the Prototype Testing and Evaluation of Wireless Instrumentation for Ecological Research at Remote Field Locations by Wireless National Science Foundation Project which ran from Sept 15th, 1999 through August 30th, 2006.

You can view the progress diaries either by Time Line or by Location.

Go right to the Final Reports of the Project here.

For a brief tutorial on Spread Spectrum Radio and it's application, go to Tutorial.

For a 16 page narrative interview explaining in layman language the current state of wireless:       

        Cook Report Interview

300k PDF                                                        200k Text File

 

The site also archives the earlier Wireless Field Test projects for Education, Local History by Wireless, and the Mongolian Wireless.

If you would like to see a remarkable US Patent filed by the 'the most beautiful woman in the world' of 1940, actress Hedy Lamarr which first described 'frequency hopping' - the basis of many advanced spread spectrum radios today click on Hedy