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Fire Trustees partnership
Transmitter survey
Aperature licence
Site Lease
GABRIOLA FIRE
PROTECTION DISTRICT
Box 89
Gabriola, B.C., VOR 1XO
Telephone: (250) 247-9677
Fax: (250) 247-9850
Email: gabfire@shaw.ca
November 17, 2004
To Whom It May Concern:
This is to
advise that the Gabriola Fire Protection District Trustees have met with
Ken Zakreski of the Gabriola Island Radio Co-Op on several
occasions.
After Mr. Zakreski's first presentation to the Trustees a motion was passed
to donate $ 1500 to Mr. Zakreski in support of the project to establish a radio
station and shared communications tower on Gabriola.
At the most recent meeting of November 10, 2004, the Board established a committee
to look into the feasibility of purchasing or leasing a portion of the property
where one of our water hydrants is located, for a communications tower site.
Yours truly,
Mr. Jared Hooper
Chairman JH:pm
Additionally
From: Ken
Zakreski
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:51:51 -0700
To: John Matthews
Subject: tx locations
Hi John,
I have called a few people handling tower sites. Zulu (owner) from Cercomm
Electronics and Frank Horton (BC Manager) for Tellus.
Cercomm location - Mt Benson
Zulu recommends that we wait for this summer or next summer at the latest
and use the Mt Benson site. He has purchased this site and will be running
hydro to it soon. The tower location is currently serviced by generator
and microwave links. Mt. Benson has the advantage of looking down on Gabriola
to provide complete coverage of all the shorelines etc. Fire chief won't
like this site as he can't get to it in an emergency.
Cercomm location - Gabriola
He does have a tower on Gabriola, it's currently being used by the Gabriola
and Cedar Fire Depts. 911 is there also. Aperature nice and high is available
and he would like Transport Canada permission to put another section on
the tower to improve our location. Land owner is Clyde Coates, this is
one of our millionares I told you about.
For a community radio station - operated by a non profit society Zulu
is offering no rental charge, but we must pay for power and lease hold
improvements.
Tellus location - Gabriola
Located off of South Road north of the Cercomm site Frank Horton (ph:604.268.2187)
has aperature on the Tellus tower at 75 feet. This tower is located at
49 09 113 N x 123 50 32 W at 160 m elevation and is 48.6 m tall. Tellus
uses this tower for Cellular, Microwave transport and Digital Paging.
We must use union riggers.
For a community radio station - operated by a non profit society and with
permission of the property owner, Frank is offering no rental charge,
but we must pay for power and lease hold improvements. Frank states that
aperture at 75 feet is worth about $500 per month.
Hope this helps,
Ken Zakreski
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