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Hi All,<br>
<br>
This week we got part of a site deployed! Two more sectors still
need to go up since there was an issue with a
supposed-to-be-present-but-was-missing ladder. We should be able to
get them up in a couple weeks from now and finish up the site
fully. I'm asking everyone involved to keep the site location
private for the time being since the network config is still in a
shambles and the site is open to abuse right now. It should be
fully configured by end of month and we'll announce its Grand
Opening then. :)<br>
<br>
But this good news comes with a flip side. We're now out of
inventory and need to back-fill it. This site deploy has cost us
about $1500 of hardware, and the majority of that came out of my
personal pocket. I'd like to re-stock HamWAN's inventory so that
we've always got a site on hot-standby ready to deploy. In fact, if
we didn't have a hot standby ready we wouldn't have scored this
location! We had 48 hours notice to prep everything and deploy.
Everyone came together really well and equipment is live, flying
high and on the Internet.<br>
<br>
<b>So, it's time for all of you who would like to see more sites
come online to dig through your couch cushions and donate to
HamWAN so that we can raise $1500 and replace the deployed
equipment. You can donate by clicking PayPal Donate or Subscribe
buttons on the HamWAN.org website.</b> I'm not in a personal
financial position to purchase the next site.<br>
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In a week from today, I'll announce how much money we've managed to
raise.<br>
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Thank you all in advance for your support!<br>
<br>
--Bart<br>
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