Oh i know exgeotraq. You are confirming almost every technical talk I had with gregg early on. He starts off kind of like a sales guy or what I kind of consider is more like a Backstage Fluffer.
On things like trying to "listen" to the towers at below -100dBm. That is some of the things I wanted to personally fly to vegas and kick the crap out of him. When I catch people doing this, I start to ask just simple questions to see if they know what the hell they are talking about. Gregg was another one. He was a classic though because, I honestly couldnt tell if he beleived his own self. Usually a person's Body Language gives them away. Every drop in -3dBm halves the power is one I like to talk on. Then here is the thing, you put these RF Chips in Permiscuious Mode, now they are going to really burn thru your battery energy and more or less the CPU is going to get real Hot constantly running "Sweeps" trying to figure out whatever you are "hearing".
You can experience this more from a Wifi Perspective easy by loading software spectrum analyzers onto your tablet. Load one up and watch how your tablet, phone or laptop starts to get a little warm listening for all the APs in the nearby area. Antenna Design is critical here as is all the EMI. Gregg had mentioned to me he had also tested his module by shipping them via FedEx. I all but was Oh My God. You mean to tell me, not only do you not have an FCC Registration to even Operate these Radios, but you all but could have violated a dozen federal safety laws.
He gave me a copy of that dude in Wichita Texas API. That part was really funny... i dont know why Gregg even sent me the photos of him in that place... but I got a kick out of them.
Gregg, then with me was doing more with trying to offer me a job... I told him no as already had my own company to run. If he was honest, I more than likely would have partnered with him to get him into the Market for GeoLocation Services and what I needed at this time last year was a Low Cost 4G Cellular Module that wasnt going to kill me on Carrier Data Plans.
Thru my years, I have found a number of Startups that enter the "Game" and I find that if I work with a few of them, I end up gaining an extension to my own R&D Teams. Then we all kind of throw each other a bone every now and then as well as carve out some niches. For me, it all has to be done though on an open and honest relationship otherwise it falls apart.
And for these Backends, I make a ton of money off hooking Text Message Systems up... my former Teams Designed the SMPP API so we could do Text Voting for the TV Show American Idol. So a lot of these systems are all inter-related. You arent going to design a backend to deal with these protocols in a week. They are not hard, but a well rounded understanding is needed. I was already doing a Cloud-Based IOT Sensor Analytics, with 2G networks shuting down, my clients needed to rapidly move their existing legacy cellular backhaul to newer technologies.
Even if he would have put the backend into that dudes CLEC... that guy would have had to come to me to buy and install more Signalling Cards as we handle 5000 msg per sec and had just finished doing a Full Linux User Programmable Card. So my company would have setup the VPN and the "Binds" for shipping the Network Messages to anywhere Geotraq decided to locate their own servers. We built the EAGLE STP and that is the "Workhouse" in every Network in the World. We now also have the same 4G version in 65% of the networks. We ended up selling it all 4 years ago to Oracle for a very big chunk of change. A lot of us are retiring, but many of us still love the R&D side and enjoy the "game".
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