The Lyme Communications Study Committee meeting #9 was held at the Lyme Fire Station on July 6, 2004, at 8:15 am. Chairman Dave Avery called the meeting to order. Present: Wallace Ragan, Pete Bleyler, John Sanders, Absent: George Hartmann, Pauline Field, Michael Hinsley, Mike Prince.
1. The minutes of meeting #8 were accepted without change.
2. Looking ahead to tasks the committee has as yet remaining before we can prepare a written report, we identified:
a. Cost estimate for site preparation of the Winslow location
b. Anticipated cellular coverage from new Verizon installations in Hanover and Norwich
3. Wally talked with Royal Electric, the vendor who installed electric service at the skyway. From them he determined that to run power in excess of 50volts from lift pylon to lift pylon would indeed be a violation of the applicable building codes, although running power up one pylon to an antenna would be allowed. Royal’s recommended solution for power was direct burial using a ditch-witch until ledge was reached, then continue up the hill in surface conduit. They allowed that they would be willing to do a preliminary site survey on this work if we identified the desired tower location.
4. I reported a conversation with Bob of WaveComm, asking for the exact proposed location proposed for their broadband facility on Winslow. It may be that the requirement of WaveComm to see the lodge and their tower in Etna means that one location would not serve well both for cellular and their broadband. They have not yet responded, saying they had to do further tests of signal strength.
5. We agreed that if we invite Royal Electric to do a preliminary cost estimate, we need to ensure that the relevant parties are kept apprised of this activity:
a. Doug Holler (ski way manager)
b. David Foster (College electrical engineer)
c. Bob Johnson (College director of telecommunications)
6. We agreed that for the remainder of the summer we would nominally retain the current bi-weekly schedule, but the chairman would cancel a given meeting by email if there appeared to be no outstanding new business.
Reported by,
David L. Avery
Chairman
Lyme Communication Committee
| 
