Yes lots of these guys are first responders/emts/police officers in
their "day" jobs.
I have found that it never hurts to be mostly accommodating to that
apparatus.
On 2/18/2016 9:17 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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 <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:50 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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?
