I filed with A, but now have data in hand for B. My RF coverage (based
on radiomobile) has 4X as many blocks as I reported with A. I could
still go back and amend the report.
I would love to go hand-groom the list... but over 6800 blocks is a bit
much unless I can do it visually.
On 9/19/2014 2:45 PM, Cameron Crum via Af wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, September 19, 2014 3:23 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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
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