Hi Elisa,

The mast is 90 ft tall and I believe requires 4(?) guy wires to be secured in a certain radius. I wouldn't say it's likely to be discrete, per se, but they are surprisingly common around Oakland and Berkeley. Normally you don't even really notice them until you start looking for them. That being said, neighbors or landlords might not feel the same way.

Having a tower around ashby bart would be pretty fantastic. At that location and height we could really do some cool things. There's still a bit of an issue of getting service to that mount itself, but it's something that can very much be solved once we start to have some infrastructure on the ground to work with.

Yeah if Mitar is around you should totally have him come check it out.

Thanks!

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:25 AM, pansophia <pansophia@gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to know how discrete these towers are.

I live in a cottage with a flat roof around 2 blocks from Ashby Bart. There's also a bit of space behind it. The cottage is behind a main house, off the street, and the area is gated, so it is very private.

I currently have my own Internet prepaid for a year - I'm just a big fan of the mesh idea. You haven't really seen me yet because I had a big health crisis a week and a half ago - if you want to joke about it, I almost died trying to make my point to Berkeley City Council. XD (Don't worry, I'm fine now,)

Anyway, I think access to the Internet is one of the most important things for low income people to have after housing and food, and I would like to enable it in South/West Berkeley. The place I have might be perfect stashing tower. If it doesn't aesthetically harm the property and it's nothing that could get him in legal trouble, I don't the landlord would care. He lives in India and lets the tenants do just about anything they want.

Perhaps Mitar should come over and scope it out?

~ Elisa

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
So a friend of mine knows a guy in the Berkeley Hills who is real nice.

I talked with him on the phone and suggested that he let us put up a tower at his house, and use it for the mesh network, and give him free internet. He said that sounds great but cautioned that his view is to the northwest.

His address is 1130 sterling ave, berkeley if you want to look at it on a topographic map or even visit. If you want to visit, let me know and i'll call him and coordinate a date when we can go over there. He owns his house and is a nice guy.

There is a telescoping 90-foot tower in my driveway. I paid $100 for it and Marc paid $45 in gasoline to go get it, and I don't think I have a place to put it. If the mesh group wants to buy the tower and put it up somewhere, for example at Charlie's place, that would work fine.

1130 sterling ave, berkeley

what do you think?
-jake
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