[TowerTalk] Gov't Study to Collect Empirical Data on Towers vs. Birds...

[BobK8IA at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/18/2003 12:42:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
stevekz9g at verizon.net writes:


> The Mobile Radio Technology Bulletin has reported that the FCC has signed 
> an
> agreement Wednesday with the State of Michigan to gather and collect collect
> empirical data on towers vs. birds as the State builds out its statewide
> public safety communications system.
> 
> 

The system has been fully built for several years now. I was the QA 
consultant for the microwave portion of the project, a 182 tower, $185M 800 Mhz digital 
trunked radio system for the State. If I recall the last tower was built in 
2000 in the UP. 

I finished my work on the project in June 2002 and moved to AZ in Sept 2002. 
I guess I got the heck out of MI before this bird nonsense started. Good thing 
I did. What a waste of money that kind of study will be.

(You "animals before people" type dont even bother wasting the bandwidth in 
flaming me, Misguided souls you are!)

Bob K8IA
nr Apache Jctn, AZ