Live streaming the cell phone meeting tonight
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Live streaming the cell phone meeting tonight
Joe is live streaming the joint townships meeting on cell phones tonight at http://beaverisland.tv
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cell phone meeting
Hi all you islanders, I expected all kinds of info on the cell tower meeting. Hope it came off and got some positive results. Any of you have any info? Dick Verduyn
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Joe Moore's web site
Thanks, But I'm not up to date on this web stuff. How do I get to his web site? Dick Veraduyn
Link to video of the meeting
BI News on the 'Net is providing the following link to video of the entire meeting as a public service. You can find the video at the following link:
http://beaverislandnews.com/2012%20Octo ... ations.htm
This video took a total of seven hours to tape, capture on a computer, edit, upload and create a webpage. That's why all the video of all events are only available to subscribers. This event is presented to all interested parties as a public service.
Here is the article written and posted last night:
Verizon Cellphone Service and Emergency Services Communication System Discussed
The joint township meeting was held this evening, October 22, 2012, at the Peaine Township Hall starting at 7 p.m. The meeting was live streamed on the Internet at http://beaverisland.tv. If you did not get a chance to watch it, the discussion was an excellent one with lots of questions from board members and lots of questions from the audience. The recorded, on demand video of this meeting will be available sometime Tuesday on this website.
The emergency services needs were placed on top of the priority list. Here is the the agreement reached by both townships and the two representativse from Verizon. Verizon agreed to put a new emergency services antenna on the top of their tower, the one farthest north of the three towers at this site.Verizon agreed to put new coaxial cable from the new antenna into the old Peaine Township Hall, and provide the connectability at the location of the backup emergency services repeater. This would be completed prior to any demolition of the current guyed emergency services tower. These representatives guaranteed that the back-up emergency services repeater would not be out of working order for more than one hour, probably just minutes.
For those that were concerned about improved cellphone service, Verizon representatives stated that the level of service would be increased to 4G and that the area of service would be increased due to the more powerful antennas to be placed on top of their planned new tower. There was no guarantee that the cellphone service would be Island-wide. The areas that would probably have questionable service would be Port St. James, farther south on the East Side, the South end, and Southwestern areas as well as below the bluff on the West Side. The plan to provide Island-wide 4G service would require equipment placed on the Donegal Bay tower, as well as the Coast Guard tower at the south end, and perhaps also the Green's Lake tower. The representatives suggested that they had not done complete studies to provide Island-wide cellphone service. The first steps in their plan was to upgrade the service to 4G and to slightly expand the service area on the island. When asked about using a different tower location, one representative stated that the issue was not one of distance from the tower to the cellphone user, but instead the weak signal from the cellphone to the tower location. Using Donegal Bay tower would not maintain the current service area. Using the East Side tower would not maintain the current service area. Their first priority is to upgrade the current service area with plans to expand the service area in 2014. The main purpose of the plan from Verizon is to upgrade current customers to a 4G service.
Bob Bradley from CCE Dispatch made a few other suggestions about the emergency services antenna move. He also reported on the bringing back up the towers and communications capability in the fairly newly designed emergency services radio system. A technician came to the island with Mr. Bradley, and this tech tweaked the sensitivity of the Coast Guard tower receiver and the Donegal Bay tower receiver and brought their connection to the main emergency services tower at the East Side Fire Station back online. The originally designed coverage area is now back and is now working.. More than 90% of Beaver Island will have handheld portable radio coverage, and vehicle mobile radio coverage will be increased to almost 100%. The mobile data terminal communications is greatly improved with a data transmitter installed here on Beaver Island. Previously, the signal had to come from Petoskey or Boyne Mountain. EMS providers applauded the effort to get this system working and get the communication towers back in operation.
There were two suggestions for improving individual home cellphone service. One is a piece of equipment purchased from the cellphone provider to use an Internet connection to access the Verizon network making the home the center of a cellphone hotspot, so that users in the house could still use the Verizon network inside the house independent from the tower location. Another idea was a third party cellphone extender that would work only if there was a cellphone signal available on the roof of a person's home. The homeowner's antenna would access the cellphone tower from a wire run into the house from the outside antenna. This would provide cellphone service in the house as well. This would only work if there was a cellphone signal available outside the home, usually on the roof.
Both the St. James Township Board and the Peaine Township Board voted to approve the plan as provided in the documentation with the suggestions of Bob Bradley included. The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:30 pm. The livestreaming video server caught up to the end of the live meeting at 9:45 pm. Approximately eighty unique IP addresses watched this meeting.
Joe Moore, editor
Beaver Island News on the 'Net
PS If you like what you see and read, you can check out other public information at http://beaverislandnews.com
http://beaverislandnews.com/2012%20Octo ... ations.htm
This video took a total of seven hours to tape, capture on a computer, edit, upload and create a webpage. That's why all the video of all events are only available to subscribers. This event is presented to all interested parties as a public service.
Here is the article written and posted last night:
Verizon Cellphone Service and Emergency Services Communication System Discussed
The joint township meeting was held this evening, October 22, 2012, at the Peaine Township Hall starting at 7 p.m. The meeting was live streamed on the Internet at http://beaverisland.tv. If you did not get a chance to watch it, the discussion was an excellent one with lots of questions from board members and lots of questions from the audience. The recorded, on demand video of this meeting will be available sometime Tuesday on this website.
The emergency services needs were placed on top of the priority list. Here is the the agreement reached by both townships and the two representativse from Verizon. Verizon agreed to put a new emergency services antenna on the top of their tower, the one farthest north of the three towers at this site.Verizon agreed to put new coaxial cable from the new antenna into the old Peaine Township Hall, and provide the connectability at the location of the backup emergency services repeater. This would be completed prior to any demolition of the current guyed emergency services tower. These representatives guaranteed that the back-up emergency services repeater would not be out of working order for more than one hour, probably just minutes.
For those that were concerned about improved cellphone service, Verizon representatives stated that the level of service would be increased to 4G and that the area of service would be increased due to the more powerful antennas to be placed on top of their planned new tower. There was no guarantee that the cellphone service would be Island-wide. The areas that would probably have questionable service would be Port St. James, farther south on the East Side, the South end, and Southwestern areas as well as below the bluff on the West Side. The plan to provide Island-wide 4G service would require equipment placed on the Donegal Bay tower, as well as the Coast Guard tower at the south end, and perhaps also the Green's Lake tower. The representatives suggested that they had not done complete studies to provide Island-wide cellphone service. The first steps in their plan was to upgrade the service to 4G and to slightly expand the service area on the island. When asked about using a different tower location, one representative stated that the issue was not one of distance from the tower to the cellphone user, but instead the weak signal from the cellphone to the tower location. Using Donegal Bay tower would not maintain the current service area. Using the East Side tower would not maintain the current service area. Their first priority is to upgrade the current service area with plans to expand the service area in 2014. The main purpose of the plan from Verizon is to upgrade current customers to a 4G service.
Bob Bradley from CCE Dispatch made a few other suggestions about the emergency services antenna move. He also reported on the bringing back up the towers and communications capability in the fairly newly designed emergency services radio system. A technician came to the island with Mr. Bradley, and this tech tweaked the sensitivity of the Coast Guard tower receiver and the Donegal Bay tower receiver and brought their connection to the main emergency services tower at the East Side Fire Station back online. The originally designed coverage area is now back and is now working.. More than 90% of Beaver Island will have handheld portable radio coverage, and vehicle mobile radio coverage will be increased to almost 100%. The mobile data terminal communications is greatly improved with a data transmitter installed here on Beaver Island. Previously, the signal had to come from Petoskey or Boyne Mountain. EMS providers applauded the effort to get this system working and get the communication towers back in operation.
There were two suggestions for improving individual home cellphone service. One is a piece of equipment purchased from the cellphone provider to use an Internet connection to access the Verizon network making the home the center of a cellphone hotspot, so that users in the house could still use the Verizon network inside the house independent from the tower location. Another idea was a third party cellphone extender that would work only if there was a cellphone signal available on the roof of a person's home. The homeowner's antenna would access the cellphone tower from a wire run into the house from the outside antenna. This would provide cellphone service in the house as well. This would only work if there was a cellphone signal available outside the home, usually on the roof.
Both the St. James Township Board and the Peaine Township Board voted to approve the plan as provided in the documentation with the suggestions of Bob Bradley included. The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:30 pm. The livestreaming video server caught up to the end of the live meeting at 9:45 pm. Approximately eighty unique IP addresses watched this meeting.
Joe Moore, editor
Beaver Island News on the 'Net
PS If you like what you see and read, you can check out other public information at http://beaverislandnews.com