18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
4:06 p.m.
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
19 Feb
19 Feb
4:25 a.m.
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(a)spaz.org> wrote:
10:13 a.m.
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
21 Feb
21 Feb
3:18 a.m.
Hi!
I can come around and check it out. I will take coordination for the
time with Elisa off the list. If anyone would like to join us, tell, and
I can include you.
Mitar
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19 Feb
19 Feb
10:06 a.m.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that a view from the Berkeley hills to the NW
will help us much. :-( We've been looking into uplinks and while we
shouldn't rule it out, it seems unlikely that we will find anything that
way.
There is some chance that the internet archive folks would be interested if
he has a view across the bay to SF though?
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
12:11 p.m.
I would have to talk to the landlord about a change to the property. The
place is pretty, so the tower can't change that. Free internet for all
tenants might be persuasive, but who would we be leeching from?
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, max b <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
clear
on this. did i mention the 100foot tower? maybe you can see all
around with it.
NW will help us much. :-( We've been
>> looking into uplinks and while we
shouldn't rule it out, it seems
unlikely that we will find anything that
>> way.
>> There is some chance that the internet archive folks would be
interested if
he has a view across the bay to SF
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
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.
1:18 p.m.
I've offered my roof before, but somehow that seems to have been forgotten.
I have a view from Emeryville in the north to San Leandro in the south. A
short mast is all that would be needed. If anyone is interested in checking
it out, let me know.
Steve
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, pansophia <pansophia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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-steve
3:45 p.m.
March 1st might work. I don't think we need much of a mast, but what to
attach it to will require a little thought. There are solar panels with a
nice support frame that should be a good mounting point, but we need to
extend the frame horizontally a bit.
Steve
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, danarauz(a)gmail.com <danarauz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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