Line of sight viewsheds (which consider clutter) might be your better choice then instead of coverage maps. At least you know with LOS that you have a greater chance of providing service than with coverage maps as they tend to be rather subjective depending on what you consider acceptable "coverage" signal. I looked at both "subscriber only" blocks and blocks with simple "reasonable" radius from a tower for a couple of our wisps. The difference was significant. Since it could potentially mean that my customers get their networks overbuilt with fed money, I tend to lean towards the radius or "coverage plot" method which produces more blocks.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > Reluctantly B. The devil on one shoulder is still telling me A. > > Actually, I am starting from A and manually approving every addition from > B. It’s a lot of work and I probably won’t do it every 6 months, but I’m > asking in each case am I sure that I could reach at least part of that > census block, and if so, why don’t I have any customers there yet? I am > more inclined to go with RF coverage in new areas I’ve just built into. If > I’ve been there 10 years and don’t have any customers in that block, maybe > I can’t cover it. In some cases I find there are zero buildings in the > block, so if Frontier wants to get CAF money to provide service there, more > power to them. > > I am probably being paranoid, but if I ever get challenged on this, I want > to have my ducks in a row. Also I want to figure out a way, even if I pay > Brian or something, to turn this into a coverage map and/or Google Earth > overlay and use that as our coverage map instead of RF coverage plots which > I find lacking. > > For some WISPs, this might be a good sales/marketing exercise. What are > all the blocks where we have RF coverage but zero customers? Why no > customers? Nobody lives there? Competitor outguns me there? Or just no > word-of-mouth. If so, maybe need to send some postcards or knock on doors. > > It should be possible to pull census statistics for each block to see how > many housing units and people the gov’t thinks are in that block. If there > are 10 houses and 30 people in a block and none of them are my customers, > why not? > > > > *From:* Randy Cosby via Af <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, September 19, 2014 3:23 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Quick Poll: 477 Deployment Report > > I'm curious how everyone is recording on their deployment report. > > A: I am reporting every census block where I have a customer > B: I am reporting every census block that I can cover based on my RF > coverage maps > C: Not yet decided > > > > > -- > > <http://www.infowest.com/> Randy Cosby > InfoWest, Inc > 435-674-0165 x 2010 > infowest.com <http://www.infowest.com/> > > This e-mail message contains information from InfoWest, Inc > and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > contain privileged, proprietary or confidential information. > > Unauthorized use, distribution, review or disclosure is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact [email protected] by reply email and destroy > the original message, all attachments and copies. > > >
