On the other hand, there’s a lot of overlap between ham club members and county emergency staff. Those contacts can be useful. I think this is why small regional tower owners sometimes give them free tower space. Can’t hurt when copper thieves hit your tower.
From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] HAMSs and Internet Maybe I am off but I never give anything away for free. I might give someone a discount but never free. When it comes to my main business, like yours is internet, the answer is always no. I have charities that I give money to buy that is separate from my operations. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 8:34 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: We do that at a tower for a ham club voice repeater, they never use much bandwidth, nowhere near 20x20, not even 1M. They are doing something different, or more likely just don't know how much they need, or are just asking for the sky because why not? -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Head Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] HAMSs and Internet I think a few of the list members out there are HAMs so I need some advice please. I support our local HAM group and have allowed them to place repeaters on two of my towers at no charge to their group. Now one of their members has asked for Internet service at one of the sites for HAM use. I have heard something about HAMs using the Internet to "talk" so I guess this is not unusual. For me the kicker is that he is asking for 20x20Mbps service...I certainly have the capacity but that just seems excessive. Opinions anyone?
