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It seems we're being forced to decom 3 more sites. Does anyone have
storage space available for all the equipment coming down? I don't.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">About 10
years ago, DNR was going to start charging amateur repeaters
commercial rates to use DNR sites. I recall there was an
active information campaign to the legislature and the
legislature instructed DNR to maintain the amateur radio
rates. I recall ARRL was involved as well. What has been
done with your legislators and the Governor's office to see
what they are willing to do?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe also throw in HamWAN Cam's helped catch a
wildfire early on. <a
href="http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-radio-wireless-network-camera-detects-washington-wildfire"
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Sad things like this go un-noticed/recognized</div>
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<div> 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>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>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>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>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>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>If anyone has any specific notes or suggestions,
please send us an email at <a
href="mailto:netops@hamwan.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">netops@hamwan.org</a></div>
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