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

[Bart Kus]

Thanks!  It's quick & easy by design.

So all the orders are placed and hardware should be here sometime next 
week.  I had to dip into about $300 of cash from PayPal due to the eBay 
purchases not allowing direct CC payment.  If you're curious about what 
it takes and where it all comes from, here is the detail of all the orders:

$1,145.34 	6*Sector 	Streakwave
$142.00 	AP7900 	eBay
$142.00 	AP7900 	eBay
$78.44 	1000ft CAT5 	Amazon
$240.35 	2*RB2011UAS-RM 	ISP Supplies
$533.65 	6*Poynting 	Titan Wireless
$420.90 	4*5SHPn 	wlan1 / link-techs
*$600.00 * 	*6*5SHPn* 	*NQ1E*
$200.20 	2*5SHPn 	data-alliance.net
*$50.00 * 	*16*3-way splitters* 	*McLendon*

	
	
$3,552.88 	Total 	


The items in *bold* are not yet acquired.  The NQ1E price is the 
estimated max HamWAN will pay.  Given his acquisition price, it should 
come in a little below that.

Now we get to see which one of these suppliers doesn't have stock, 
despite their claims of inventory.  :)

--Bart


On 5/20/2013 8:40 PM, KL7WM at aol.com wrote:
> I like your voting
> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Benjamin
>>>
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