I stand corrected about the tower height. Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) holds a license for a 2 meter system that operates from the top of the tower (KON933). That license states that the tower is 30 meters tall. When it was built in the 90's, Cingular (now AT&T) concurrently stationed a 1900 MHz cell site at the top of the tower.

VIFR owns the tower; they deliberately built it with a revenue stream in mind. There is plenty of space on the mast. Other tenants have come and gone (Centurlink, Clearwire).

VIFR maintains a close relationship with Vashon Auxiliary Communications Services (VACS). Were solid EMCOMM use cases identified, it would be VACS that would deploy and manage a HamWAN node.

Speaking personally, it's the lack of detailed, concrete use cases that are discouraging me from spending my own time and money for a pilot. We could build it, but what would we use it for?

73, Daniel K7DGL

Vashon ACS

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Daniel Luechtefeld
<daniel.luechtefeld@gmail.com> wrote:
> Both Verizon and AT&T are tenants of this tower.

Do they have any exclusivity claims to certain parts of the tower?
What mounting points would be available to HamWAN?

Tom

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