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This is very unfortunate news. Perhaps we can draft a letter to our
state legislators explaining our situation with the DNR, and
detailing our network's contribution toward state emergency
communications. Maybe even including an example of our wildfire
report last year?<br>
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Dale<br>
AH6ET<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/18/2021 10:07 PM, Nigel Vander
Houwen wrote:<br>
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Hello HamWAN volunteers/users/interested parties,
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<div class="">As has been previously discussed on the list, there
has been a lot of happenings in the background over roughly the
last year with regards to DNR sites. We’ve had several sites in
limbo for some time as lease holders worked with DNR to sort
things out, and we had some hopeful indications that it would
end up working out in the end.</div>
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<div class="">Unfortunately indications have greatly soured. As
discussed in recent weeks, Rattlesnake and Larch Mountain were
decommissioned recently, and we’ve now received official word
that we’ll need to decommission Gold Mountain in the coming
weeks. As much as I’d like it to end there, we are not holding
our breath for Capitol Peak or Blyn.</div>
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<div class="">Unfortunately new rules DNR has placed on amateur
leases effectively exclude use cases like HamWAN, if they were
offering them at all due to DNR budget issues, and commercial
rates are simply not feasible. I’m sure folks will think/suggest
about additional donations to cover it, but commercial rates
would require many-fold our current donation levels EVERY YEAR
to make work. It’s simply not something we can reasonably
consider.</div>
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<div class="">I’m very sorry to have to deliver this news to the
many folks this will impact. This is obviously a major blow for
the network. I’m thankful for the team who has put so much
effort into building out these sites and maintaining the
infrastructure, and I’m saddened to see that work torn down.
Likewise I know there are quite a number of combined users,
repeaters, and emergency groups who are going to be impacted by
this. I hope that we can work with you to get you connected to
another site where the pathing works.</div>
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<div class="">We’re not done. There’s a lot of the core network,
and a lot of coverage that doesn’t rely on these DNR sites, and
will remain operational. We’ll likely need to do some work to
reconsider/rework redundant pathing after this loss. Going
forward I’m hopeful for finding new non-DNR sites where we can
rebuild and expand once more.</div>
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<div class="">If anyone has any specific notes or suggestions,
please send us an email at <a href="mailto:netops@hamwan.org"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">netops@hamwan.org</a></div>
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<div class="">Nigel</div>
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