[WISPA] Macquarie Buys U.S. Wireless Tower Company

2007-07-02 Thread Frank Muto
Macquarie Buys U.S. Wireless Tower Company Shu-Ching Jean Chen, 07.02.07, 2:49 AM ET HONG KONG - Macquarie, Australia's largest investment bank, is making inroads into the large yet underdeveloped wireless telecom infrastructure market in the U.S., agreeing to buy the wireless tower operator Glob

Re: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread David E. Smith
Brad Belton wrote: > So, you bought this LP & Natural Gas generator for $1460 delivered, > including tax and transfer switch? Not quite. I was going on the price posted with the OP's link, which had a displayed price of about $3800 (at the time I looked at it, at least). That unit can run on eithe

RE: [WISPA] Fw: [TowerTalk] Tower ACCIDENT

2007-07-02 Thread Ralph
Before drilling ANY hole in a tower leg, I would check with the manufacturer. Maybe a better option is to remove a bolt if possible, but will probably not be unless it is your lucky day. Ralph -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Sc

RE: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread Ralph
We've used the Guardians (Generac) from Home Depot. Work fine. Every one I have ever seen came with the transfer switch. Best deal was a 12Kw I got that was brand new, but the transfer switch and the top of the generator were slightly dented. Seems like I gave $1500.00 for it. HD said it was 400.0

RE: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread Brad Belton
David, Oh, ok...I missed the original post link to the 3800.00 generator. After poking around on the www.electricgeneratorsdirect.com site I came across the $1959.00 7kW LP & Natural gas genset delivered, tax included, with transfer switch and $40 check discount. I'm inclined to bite off on that

RE: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread Justin S. Wilson
Talk with JohnnyO. He has some industrial grade generators with ultra low hours, low rpm running, etc. They put the Home Depot ones to shame and probably not that much more. Justin --- Justin S. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technology Services - WISP Consulting - Tower Services WEB: http://www.mtin

Re: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread JohnnyO
Hey Brad - Being George don't wanna call me You call me LOL JohnnyO 337-764-5953 ps. call me after 5pm today .. I may have something you may want...maybe :) - Original Message - From: "Brad Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Monday, July 02, 2

RE: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread Justin S. Wilson
You could always buy a Toyota Prius and use it as a generator: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Toyota-Prius-As-a-Backup-Generator --- Justin S. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technology Services - WISP Consulting - Tower Services WEB: http://www.mtin.net WEB: http://www.metrospan.net WEB: http://www.f

[WISPA] AT&T Buys Rural Wireless Provider - Dobson

2007-07-02 Thread Frank Muto
AP Shares of Dobson Communications Corp. were on pace to open at an all-time high Monday after AT&T Inc. agreed to buy the rural wireless provider for $2.8 billion. AT&T said Friday it will pay $13 per share for Dobson, adding 1.7 million subscribers to its network of 62 million. Dobson shar

[WISPA] MobilePro sells CLEC

2007-07-02 Thread Peter R.
MobilePro Signs Definitive Agreement to Sell CLEC Division Monday July 2, 6:00 am ET $30 Million Price Would Enable Full Retirement of Cornell Capital Obligations at Closing BETHESDA, Md., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MobilePro Corp., announced today that it has signed a definitive agree

[WISPA] 700 MHz war: Frontline challenges VZ

2007-07-02 Thread Peter R.
700 MHz war: Frontline challenges Verizon while AT&T mulls auction plans By Jeffrey Silva Story posted: June 29, 2007 http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/FREE/70628013/1005/allnews The 700 MHz debate has suddenly turned both interesting and nasty in the lead-up to next m

[WISPA] Frontline Enlists Auctions Experts To Back E-Block Plan

2007-07-02 Thread Peter R.
http://www.telecomweb.com/tnd/24041.html A trio of auction experts says Frontline Wireless' proposed E Block not only will increase social welfare, but will enhance revenue for the upcoming 700 MHz auction (/TelecomWeb news break/, June 5). Peter Cramton, Andrzej Skrzypacz and Robert Wilson a

Re: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread George Rogato
I called and got voice mail for someone named Mike? JohnnyO wrote: Hey Brad - Being George don't wanna call me You call me LOL JohnnyO 337-764-5953 ps. call me after 5pm today .. I may have something you may want...maybe :) - Original Message - From: "Brad Belton" <[EM

[WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
Just a quick question to the list, is Trango 5800 series still a viable option for providing data & VOIP (IAX2) to customers? I know a few ISPs out there who use it for that, but there’s virtually no data at all on the Trango site regarding it. I tried Canopy Adv. a few months back but was unhapp

Re: [WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Forrest W Christian
Doug Ratcliffe wrote: I tried Canopy Adv. a few months back but was unhappy with the overall range & quality (2.5 miles LOS w/ a reflector, and 8 port ATA, the voice was choppy when I had all 8 calls going). I’m transmitting 1-3 miles over a salt water ¾ mile wide river. On the canopy side: Two

RE: [WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
I had actually called Motorola support, we had it configured for 50/50, the versions were up to date, but I think multipath was the problem. I was at ground level, about 25 feet from the shore of the body of water I was crossing. I may reconsider Canopy again in the future but I didn't feel like

RE: [WISPA] FCC Public Notice

2007-07-02 Thread michael mulcay
Tom/Charles The whole objective is to increase the effective use of spectrum under the existing rules. NO WAIVERS, NO RULE CHANGES and NO INCREASED INTERFERENCE. To maintain the existing frequency coordination efficiencies "the path" antennas must meet CAT A (or B) and their size will be large.

Re: [WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Muehleisen
Doug, I will second Forrest's comments. We have been running VOIP on Canopy for several years now will great success. The key is setting the high priority queues and DiffServ settings. We also tagged VOIP traffic in a high priority DHCP VLAN. We've found that PPPoE encapsulation really struggl

RE: [WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
I'm not using Canopy at the moment - I had bought a trial kit, ended up selling it. I'm using Mikrotik right now. How are you doing with concurrent calls per sector? I'm talking about rolling out a network _mostly_ dedicated to VOIP, even some customers without data at all. Some customers would

Re: [WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Muehleisen
Doug, See inline... Doug Ratcliffe wrote: I'm not using Canopy at the moment - I had bought a trial kit, ended up selling it. I'm using Mikrotik right now. How are you doing with concurrent calls per sector? If I'm not mistaken the Canopy Advantage white papers claim 25 concurrent VOIP ca

[WISPA] Verizon in the Fixed Wireless business

2007-07-02 Thread Tom DeReggi
A couple months late posting. But interesting to see Verizon working its way into Fixed Wireless. http://www.fibertower.com/corp/solutions-government-networx.shtml Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Un

RE: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread Mac Dearman
We have the exact same generator as well - - only a 16KW - - we too ordered it from Lowes and it was $2900.00 with a $200.00 rebate. It was drop shipped to the NOC - - -and no - - - - we haven't had a single power outage either since we bought and installed it 8 months ago :-) I hear it fire up

Re: [WISPA] Low cost generator

2007-07-02 Thread John Thomas
If you are serious about backup power, here is some equipment you might consider; http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/42/p/1/pt/10/product.asp or http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/44/p/1/pt/8/product.asp or http://www.outbackpower.com/Backup.htm John George Rogato wrote: If it was just for radios,

RE: [WISPA] Trango & VOIP

2007-07-02 Thread Don Annas
We currently use the 5850 fox units for many of our SIP clients and it works well. Very important to turn off ARQ as that seems to cause issues. We use the Mikrotik at both ends to control QoS. - Don -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug

[WISPA] Toledo Reconsiders Muni Wi-Fi

2007-07-02 Thread Peter R.
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/007750.html By Glenn Fleishman Toledo, Ohio’s mayor has backed away from Wi-Fi plan: The mayor says the city won’t continue to seek council approval for a $2.2m contract with MetroFi. The contract would cover five years of service for the city, and was estimate