[MCARC] Brk

Farren Constable farren at computershed.com
Thu May 28 19:30:27 EDT 2020 

All:

I just had a very nice phone conversation with Rick Stoll from BVT.  I
shall attempt to summarize:


   - He knew all about the accidental removal of the clubs antenna. He said
   it was in the process of falling off already when they took it down.
   - He's willing to install another antenna for us as long as we provide
   it and all the PROPER mounting equipment.  He's not going to do a "duck
   tape and bailing wire" job.
   - (I think we should still get City approval, but that's just me. Maybe
   it's a "what they don't know won't hurt them" thing?)
   - He said the City used to have an equipment cabinet up there but he's
   not sure what's in it.  BVT's cabinet is full.
   - (Dennis: is the City's cabinet where the packet gear was located?)
   - He said they have some old power supply cabinets "in a pile out back"
   that we might could adopt one if it would be large enough.
   - The DB224 antenna that was offered isn't BVT's. It was just something
   still on the tower that wasn't being used so they offered it, but it's not
   really theirs to offer. My thought on that is that if somebody comes along
   years from now and wants their antenna back, we'll worry about that then
   and in the meantime we may as well get some good out of it.  He didn't
   remember about feedline from that antenna.
   - When I asked about the possibility of getting an Internet connection
   up there for remote-control of the repeater, he said "may.....be.......".
   I don't know if the controller even has that feature, I just thought I'd
   ask about getting Internet.


So, we have the possibility of using an existing commercial VHF antenna
and/or putting a ham antenna up there.  I say both!  the .285 repeater and
a club digipeater.

If there's existing coax to the DB224, I've got a RigExpert AA-600 that'll
make quick work of telling us where that antenna is at.....

Dave, can I leave it to you to talk to the City people about us going up
there on a recon mission?

I'll be the BVT contact person.

-Farren

The Computer Shed
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On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 1:22 PM Farren Constable <farren at computershed.com>
wrote:

> 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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