[MCARC] Brk

Thu May 28 14:22:56 EDT 2020

OK, got clarification from Dennis Kracht:

John Smith is also a BVT person and he is in charge and Josh Johns is the
worker that climbs towers & installs equipment.  I don't know John, just
Josh.  Does anybody know John?

So, other than *maybe* sweet-talking BVT into doing some tower work for us,
it sounds like they're pretty much out of the loop.

Since Dave knows the mayor of B.R., I'm going to let him work on that side
of things.  What's his name?

-Farren

The Computer Shed
Business Computer Services
785.747.8100

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 1:15 PM Farren Constable <farren at computershed.com>
wrote:

> Dave:
>
> Is there a John Smith in the B.R. City department that you know of?
>
> Dennis Kracht at BVT said the tower is B.R. City owned and controlled and
> that they're only on it to provide Internet to the city and surrounding
> area. He claimed he was not personally aware that BVT had taken anything
> off of the tower that wasn't theirs.  He also said their equipment box was
> nearly full so not to expect to be given any free space there.
>
> Anyway, he said John Smith would be my contact and I assume he meant my
> B.R. City contact but I sent an email to clarify that point.
>
> Dennis also told me who does their tower work and it's somebody that I've
> been talking to a lot recently because I'm trying to figure out how to get
> a link to their Internet on my old tower south of Waterville.  So, I'll
> make contact with him.  Josh Jones is his name if anybody else knows him
> and wants to talk to him....
>
> I think we can keep this ball rolling if we try.....
>
> -Farren
>
> The Computer Shed
> Business Computer Services
> 785.747.8100
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:51 PM Dave Crawford <dcrawford2020 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The mayor of Blue Rapids called me today on different subject so while he
>> was on the phone I asked him who owns the tower.  He does not know and
>> there really isn’t much reason that he would or should. I explained our
>> interest in the tower and he offered to find out but I told him not to put
>> too much effort into it just yet.
>>
>> For what it is worth, our mayor is a retired Army full bird Colonel with
>> an interest in amateur radio.  If we were able to put a repeater south of
>> town that might be just the thing to motivate him to get licensed.  I
>> explained to him that we used to have a packet station at that site and
>> that Mike Minihan and I had climbed that tower some 20-25 years ago.  I
>> think he would be willing to work with us if we want to pursue the matter.
>>
>> I don’t know the answer to the cabinet question but would moving the
>> cabinet at Home City to the BR site a possibility?  Home City doesn’t seen
>> to want us there anyway.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 28, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Farren Constable <farren at computershed.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> All:
>>
>> Dennis Mason tells me there's not a building up there, just some
>> electrical boxes none of which are big enough to hold 2-meter duplexers.
>> That might put a kink in the plans.  Does anyone have an enclosure big
>> enough to hold everything that's weather-proof?
>>
>> I do still plan to reach out to Dennis Kracht at BVT.
>>
>> I'm curious what other duplexer(s) Myron has.  Another one for 2 meters??
>>
>> -Farren
>>
>> The Computer Shed
>> Business Computer Services
>> 785.747.8100
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:07 PM Myron Nolind <myron.w0mdn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Will check and get back to you
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:28 AM Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It should be the one we added the elbows to the coaxes between the cans
>>>> and combiner harness to lower their frequency a bit as I recall.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Nate
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