We took a property tour with the owner of the land for the potential tower location. The location is perfect as far as radio waves are concerned. It would give us direct line of sight to Lake Alyson, Canyon Drive, Mountain Loop, Pilchuck Tree Farm Road and most of Jordan and Arlington. The bad news is that there is no current way to get there other than Helicopter or Motorcycles. We need to find the forest service roads and easments that lead up to the ridge top and then get keys and such. We think there may also be a way up from the other side, but haven't found that yet on the maps. If we can gain physical access to the area it would be worth building out a tower with a weatherproof equipment box and solar power (since there is no power at the mountain top.) I will continue to keep you all posted on progress as we move forward.

The "Aspen" development in the Tulalip/Marysville area gets built out tomorrow (2/16/07). We have a number of customers waiting to be installed as soon as the main link is up. This should be a good growth area for us, considering the topography and lack of DSL/Cable. It will be a 17 mile link with 5.8 Ghz and a backhaul antenna. Line of Sight to the host location is excellent, so we hope to have a straightforward install for the main link and Access Point. I'll give an update tomorrow night to let you know how it goes.

Wish us luck!

-Aaron