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Hello,<br>
<br>
It's been a week since I've called on everyone to help raise enough
funds to order replacement hardware for the site that was deployed
so that we can keep deploying. The results are in, and this week
we've raised:<br>
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<div align="center"><big><big><big><b>$120</b><br>
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Three people stepped up to make this happen, and I thank each of
you. Sadly this is only 8% of what is required to keep us going
here.<br>
<br>
It's almost summer time, the mountain top sites are melting and
finally becoming accessible. In the next 3-5 months we will face
our largest growth period to date as a result. We will need to keep
plenty of hardware in stock to deploy to these sites as they open
up. We must not miss this summer's window of opportunity. That is
exactly how projects die forever.<br>
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There are 50 people on this mailing list. I would like to ask each
of you to look at your monthly Internet bill and donate just ONE
month towards creating the network. We are funneling the money 100%
into hardware, and have not (amazingly!) entered into any recurring
cost situations. This is a one-time investment which will pay off
for years. I estimate the average person's Internet bill to be
$60/mo. If everyone donated just that we'd raise $3000 and be able
to deploy 2 more cell sites from just that 1 round of funding!<br>
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Remember, these sites serve huge land areas, not like typical mobile
phone cell sites. By month's end I'll publish the coverage models
for the 2 sites coming online right now, after they're fully
configured. I was really (pleasantly) surprised when I saw the
models one of the project engineers did (thanks Tom!).<br>
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If you'd like to help in beta testing the sites as they're being
built, come join us on freenode in the #HamWAN channel. It's been
quite active lately. If you have suggestions for how to improve
fundraising, I'd love to hear them too. (on-list is fine)<br>
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--Bart<br>
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