[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Approve purchase of 2 cell sites worth of gear

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Daniel KL7WM
 
 
In a message dated 5/20/2013 8:27:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
me at bartk.us writes:

Voting is now concluded.  1 Yay, 0 Nay.   The proposal is approved.

Let's get spendy.

As an aside, one  forethoughtful HamWAN member bought out the entire Baltic 
Networks stock of  5SHPn modems in anticipation of this.  They're available 
there @ $15 less  than anywhere else.  We should have a decent deal on 
these in this  round.  We'll still need to get 4 more on top of that purchase  
though.

--Bart


On 5/19/2013 8:35 PM, Bart Kus  wrote:


We're @ 0% interest until Oct 31st, then we go up  to 20.99%.

--Bart


On 5/19/2013 7:17 PM, Benjamin Krueger  wrote:


Can we have more details about the terms of the credit  account please?


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Bart Kus <_me at bartk.us_ 
(mailto:me at bartk.us) > wrote:

Hello,

We're  moving into a busy deployment season.  We must be ready to capture  
sites for expanding the HamWAN network as they become available.  The sites 
don't work on our schedule, we must be ready to work on  theirs.  The 
discussions we're holding with site owners are  indicating we're about to need 1-2 
more sites worth of gear in the next  few weeks.  This spending request is 
to approve a purchase of  enough equipment to stand up 2 cell sites, with a 
spending limit of  $4000.  It should come in just a little above $3000 from 
what I can  tell.

Despite the low current donation levels, we have a credit  limit of $8000 
we can use.  I believe it'd be best to get the  network on the air, allow the 
user base to expand, and then pay down the  initial build-out costs.  The 
only reason we have anything on the  air right now is because of this policy. 
 We do have enough cash on  hand (about $1400) to make interest payments on 
this debt for a year  should the fund raising continue to be a challenge 
even with a larger  network footprint.  Since my report of last week's fund 
raising,  we've raised another $100 dollars, making for a total of $220 raised 
in  the last week.  I'm trying to hang on to at least $1000 of cash as  a 
float in case of emergencies, so we're still shy $1100 on the  cash-only cell 
site purchase.

Directors, please cast your votes.  My vote is for approving this spending. 
 Voting will close 24  hours from the time of this email. (Monday, just 
after 7PM PST)  List members, feel free to talk to directors to influence  
votes.

--Bart


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