Re: [WISPA] Handling Non-paying Subs

2009-05-06 Thread Eric Rogers
The warmness and storms is because of global warming... LOL -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Bob Moldashel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:32 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Handling Non-paying Subs

[WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I thought I would share this email that I just sent to the FCC regarding the Form 477 report. I am late filing this report because we don't have accurate data and thought that my reasons why were worth sharing with my colleagues. I support what the FCC is trying to do with Form477, but was not

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Randy Cosby
Related side-note. The wife of one of our installers just got hired on as a census worker. She got a handheld terminal (can't remember the name brand) with fingerprint recognition, built-in GPS capabilities, etc. Will be interesting to see what the next census data set looks like. Randy

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Martha Huizenga
Hi Matt, This was a great note to the FCC! Well done. This doesn't help me, since I am an urban WISP, but my guess is that as you stated a lot of rural WISPs either had this problem and knew it and just decided to file inaccurate data or didn't know the data was inaccurate. It certainly

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Gino Villarini
The terminal are made by Harris Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Vickie Edwards
You're actually fairly lucky when it comes to figuring out what census tract your customers are in - NE and WY have very large census tracts. I can understand why this would be a better way to go about collecting data than ZIP codes (in the most rural areas around here, one extremely rural area

Re: [WISPA] Handling Non-paying Subs

2009-05-06 Thread RickG
LOL, warmness? It's been below average temperatures here. I'd like to see some global warming! -RickG On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Eric Rogers ecrog...@precisionds.com wrote: The warmness and storms is because of global warming... LOL -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread eje
I know and feel your pain there. Luckily we do not have that many customers but 75% of our customer addresses does not geocode and we are doing something similar as your doing with #2 where the installers have to try to pin point the correct right location for the install. Pain is the installs

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Baird
For next time, check http://www.geocode.com/, it cost about $35 per 1000, and does all that you need to do to submit the data. Regards Michael Baird I know and feel your pain there. Luckily we do not have that many customers but 75% of our customer addresses does not geocode and we are doing

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Unfortunately, this doesn't resolve anything for me. NONE of the geocoding engines have the data for the customers that are not accurate in my system. The hole in the process has to do with the county level information is not up to date or not provided to the geocoding service. This is

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Jon Auer
Do you know if it can handle grid-coordinate addresses? Around here we have addresses like N96 W32XXX County Line Rd So far I've tried Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo, MapPoint, and Manifold GIS and none of them can consistently geocode that address format. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:27 PM,

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread David E. Smith
Michael Baird wrote: For next time, check http://www.geocode.com/, it cost about $35 per 1000, and does all that you need to do to submit the data. If your users are in a rural area, don't depend on this for too much. (Nothing against this specific service, I'd not heard of it before today,

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Scott Reed
Right, Matt. Even with zip code included we had some come back in the wrong county. A couple were even in the wrong state. Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Unfortunately, this doesn't resolve anything for me. NONE of the geocoding engines have the data for the customers that are not accurate

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Webster
signatureFact of the matter is, Geocoding an address to a set of coordinates has always been an inaccurate process. As Matt stated, in areas where they have not done 911 Addressing, there is no real way to place an address in the proper spot. Even with 911 address data it will only plot the

Re: [WISPA] Window Mount 2.4 Antenna

2009-05-06 Thread Jon Auer
Check out the Andrew QD-2327MX10-1. Suction cup mount antenna with about 13Db of gain. http://www.hol4g.com/ac/product.aspx?number=AND-QD-2327MX10-1p=171688sc=0 On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: I have a friend that wants to use there wireless router from there shed

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Webster
Here is a copy of a post I made back in March about the relationships to Tracts, Zip codes, Census Bock Groups and Census Blocks, the full post is here with views to larger map images: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22157982-National-Broadband-availability-a- simple-solution-to-mapping

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Baird
Garbage in, garbage out, sorry didn't read enough of the thread, I thought it was about the FCC filing process being to much of a burden, not about record keeping issues. Regards Michael Baird Unfortunately, this doesn't resolve anything for me. NONE of the geocoding engines have the data

Re: [WISPA] Window Mount 2.4 Antenna

2009-05-06 Thread Tom DeReggi
Cool, but it would be way cooler if it was a square 13db panel antenna that could be hung at Horizontal or Verticle polarity, at the same beamwidth. What we did for a few window installs was We took the Ubiquiti suction cup mount (about $15) and left the top peice of, which leave a surface