Lewis, That’s kinda what I was expecting I might hear from someone. If it wasn’t for the support on the equipment, we would move to that in a second. When I get a couple hours (cough, cough) I will need to spend more time with the hardware.
Thanks! Paul From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:17 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower lighting - 3rd party monitoriing services What it says you have to do and what you actually have to do are vastly different. We monitor it ourselves. There are a few companies that do it. The cheapest way is to use a monitor you can slap on Ethernet with SNMP. If not, they Ali use cellular and go for a minimum of $30 power month. Once you get notified you just calm the FAA number with your ASR and you get two weeks. You can call back every two weeks forever if you like and never fix the thing. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015, 8:17 AM Joseph Marsh <bwireless...@gmail.com<mailto:bwireless...@gmail.com>> wrote: Asentria does tower light monitoring and a ton of other stuff ________________________________ From: Paul McCall<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net> Sent: 8/27/2015 8:09 AM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Tower lighting - 3rd party monitoriing services We have one tower we own (320ft.) . When we acquired the tower, they were using a company Flash Technology in Franklin Tennessee to monitor the lighting system. We just kept using them. The technology is “only” about 10 to 12 years old that is in use there, but the control boards can get quite expensive and we’ve had to replace various boards, parts at the bottom, which adds up. Flash Technology supports the equipment as well. So… 2 questions. What are people using for a 3rd party monitoring company for tower lighting? Anybody doing it themselves? I think it has to report to the FAA within a couple hours of any lighting outage, then report once the lighting is normal again. Paul Paul McCall, Pres. PDMNet / Florida Broadband 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 office 772-473-0352 cell www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com/> pa...@pdmnet.net<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net>
