west africa: Remote networking with high-frequency (HF) radio

Deep inside the warm green interior of Guinea, centered in the frontal lobe of West Africa, field personnel in the widely scattered village-towns of Dabola, Kissidougou and Nzerekore now enjoy access to regular internet e-mail, directly from their desktops. Here we have bridged the digital divide, and there isn't a telephone line or satellite dish in sight. Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles--over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs--through wavelengths of high-frequency (HF) radio. Our project is called Radio E-mail, and here is its story.