Gristle Crüe Call — GEODnet & Parley Labs Q + A

Mike from GEOD­net came on to fill us in on the lat­est, from remote min­ing to hard­ware upgrades. Very cool udpates! Bryan from Par­ley Labs dropped by in the last quar­ter to talk about the 5G & IoT work they’re doing, includ­ing their rev share and financ­ing programs. 

CHAT TRANSCRIPT

10:02:12 From 619OTA : what does this upgrade thingy do ?
10:02:33 From 619OTA : same. just a net­work thing I think
10:06:49 From 619OTA : Nik youre mut­ed
10:07:00 From Mike Hor­ton : mike@hyfix.ai
10:09:12 From Michael Corum : Will we get an email giv­ing us the oppor­tu­ni­ty to get the upgrade card? Also, how much?
10:09:48 From 619OTA : should have got a black Fri­day email about it
10:09:52 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @Michael C — I will send you the email. Are you signed up on the GEODNET list?
10:09:54 From Nik Hawks : I got one, lemme grab a link.
10:09:58 From Russ : Are the Rak trade ins being sent the new ver­sion?
10:10:02 From Michael Corum : I am — but no email for Black Fri­day
10:10:24 From Michael Corum : I do get a lot of emails from Geod­Net — let me look again
10:10:49 From 619OTA : post­ed a screen­shot in the geod­net sec­tion
10:10:53 From Nik Hawks : Just for­ward­ed one to you Mike C.
10:12:07 From Michael Corum : Found the email — the graph­ics took for­ev­er to down­load so I must have giv­en up on it when it came the first time
10:12:13 From Michael Corum : $150
10:13:06 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Weird on the graph­ics… I will check that out.
10:13:58 From Michael Corum : Thanks Nik — your email just arrived
10:14:07 From Michael Corum : I’ll prob­a­bly order a few of these cards
10:17:42 From 619OTA : who are some of the peo­ple you are work­ing with, if you can say. do you see your­self work­ing with spacex/starlink ?
10:18:20 From Michael Corum : This is the first time I’ve heard of the $250 a year — is that only for the new min­er or the exist­ing ones? Also, if I buy a card to upgrade, does that mean I have to start pay­ing $250 a year (some­thing I did­n’t know about before)
10:20:12 From Michael Corum : So if we buy a Hyfix box and then the upgrade card and put it up at our house, we don’t have to pay $250/year?
10:20:28 From 619OTA : no.
10:20:29 From Nik Hawks : Cor­rect.
10:20:41 From Michael Corum : Thanks
10:21:08 From Michael Corum : So I can buy more box­es and put them up in rur­al under-served areas and just go — no year­ly cost
10:21:43 From Michael Corum : I do have a few friends in India who might do this for me
10:22:06 From Mike Hor­ton : FIG
10:22:32 From 619OTA : would mex­i­co count ?
10:25:26 From Mike Hor­ton : https://fig.net/fig2023/index.htm
10:27:23 From Michael Corum : That hap­pened to me with Heli­um — just recent­ly some­body put up one 250 meters away
10:27:26 From 619OTA : no not me. but I got a guy about 2 miles down the road
10:30:15 From 619OTA : its around 200–400mb a month
10:30:27 From 619OTA : gigs ?
10:30:55 From 619OTA : Nik and I know all about off grids
10:31:37 From 619OTA : best I can do is 5gb/m
10:31:49 From Nik Hawks : 3 — 6 GB/month
10:33:53 From 619OTA : the rewards are dif­fer­ent for off grid / remote setups right
10:34:27 From Michael Corum : I was away for a bit — back now but I’m still con­fused about the finan­cial mod­el for the rental of units in India — does my friend in India get the $250 or part of it? How does that work?
10:35:00 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @Michael — if you have a per­son­al con­nec­tion, you don’t need to pay the $250
10:35:02 From Nik Hawks : It’s like a man­aged ser­vice. If you want to use it, you pay the annu­al fee. If you don’t go through the ser­vice, you don’t have to pay the fee.
10:35:55 From Michael Corum : Let’s say I have a friend in India — he could put one up — who pays what? How much does my friend in India get? What do I get for my $250/year?
10:37:00 From Michael Corum : Ahh­h­hh, ok
10:39:41 From 619OTA : very nice to hear
10:41:17 From 619OTA : so. just think­ing. the “new” or upgrade will prob­a­bly use more data than the orig­i­nal
10:41:22 From Michael Corum : Any thought of allow­ing a hard-wire inter­net con­nec­tion rather than requir­ing wire­less?
10:41:49 From Michael Corum : Both of those would be great
10:41:58 From Michael Corum : Thanks
10:41:58 From 619OTA : ill hit up your dis­cord. but would like to learn more about how much data is used per month
10:42:27 From Russ : What is avail­able smart­phone and con­sumer cm loca­tion soft­ware and equip­ment.
10:42:35 From Michael Corum : I have a bunch of those
10:42:43 From 619OTA : i still need to set­up mine. need to fix my off grid. i told ya you coul­da held off on send­ing mine ?
10:43:52 From Michael Corum : 5Gig — per day/month/week/year?
10:44:01 From Michael Corum : per month — thanks
10:44:05 From 619OTA : oh wait.. what is the min­i­mum SPEED. dur.. i can go over my data lim­it
10:44:25 From 619OTA : month. ~5gb a month
10:46:10 From 619OTA : im talk­ing to Jason. im talk­ing to a good loca­tion near apart­ment build­ings
10:46:11 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Only out­side or inside units as well?
10:52:11 From Russ : Can you make your pmts in tokens??
10:56:52 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Bri­an men­tioned he want­ed to hear oth­er people’s opin­ions on MOBILE and 5G — can we hear his opin­ion and thoughts?
10:57:11 From Michael Corum : me too — but sell­ing in rur­al areas is super hard
11:00:22 From Nik Hawks : spexi
11:00:23 From Michael Corum : Thanks Bryan and Mike
11:00:33 From Bryan Bui-Tuong : Hope I answered any ques­tions you guys had.
11:00:49 From Bryan Bui-Tuong : Always open to answer more if you still have lin­ger­ing ques­tions
11:01:00 From alvaro­gra­cia : Thanks Nik!
11:01:11 From Michael Corum : Thanks — bye