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Izard County approves financial plan for new communications system

Izard County Judge Richard Sherrell says "a miracle deal" should soon allow the county's outdated and unreliable communications system to be replaced.

At the August 2 Izard County Quorum Court meeting, Justices of the Peace approved an appropriation of $68,050 to be used toward the purchase of a communications tower and a building to house related equipment.

The current communications system uses old technology that does not reach to all areas of the county and it has totally shut down during some emergency situations.

"Initially we thought it would cost $300,000 to $350,000 for a new system, and we could not find any grants to help pay for it," said Sherrill.

Sherrill now believes the new "narrow band" system, which must be in place by January 1, 2013 to avoid large fines, will cost around $165,000.

"A company called Pegasus Tower responded to our request for proposals," said Sherrill. "It had a cellular tower in Mississippi it had to remove because of a road widening project. A portable building designed for cellular phone use came with it. It offered to sell the tower and building and set everything up for $155,000."

The problem of how to pay for the project remained an obstacle but, last month, the county judge finally landed a meeting with Governor Mike Beebe.

When Sherill and Office of Emergency Management Director Bill Beebe traveled to Little Rock, it didn't look promising.

"Right off, the Governor said, 'You realize that we've got no money available,'" said Sherrill, who added Beebe wanted to know how much the county had to help pay for the project.

Sherrill told the Governor the county was desperate, because its communication system had failed several times in emergency situations. So, he was ready to try a "hillbilly solution:" put up a 100 foot antenna tower, supported by guy wires, which would be only minimally better than the current system.

"By the end of the meeting, the Governor said he would contact Butch Calhoun, the director of Rural Development and see if there was anything that office could do to help," said Sherrill.

By the end of the day, Calhoun was in touch with Sherrill with the news that some new grant money was coming available in August, and Izard County may qualify for $50,000.

White River Planning later informed Sherrill that the county may also qualify for $23,000 in USDA grants, if it can show it has money allocated to support the project.

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It is not unusual for people to call and ask us it we can design cell phone signal booster kits and cell phone repeater kits for large and/or unusual applications. I was fortunate enough to enter the cell phone signal booster business while it was still in its infancy. So the Director of the Wilson Electronics technical department had plenty of time to spend training me.

He and I tackled some very unusual projects, such as a nuclear reactor, an underground mine, an oil refinery, hospital emergency rooms in basements, offshore drilling platforms, outdoor campgrounds, and boat marinas.

Over the next few weeks, I will post some case histories of some large and/or complex cell phone signal solutions that we have successfully designed that solved the customer’s cell phone signal problems. This may help to give you a level of comfort that we can solve your cell phone signal problems, almost no matter how simple or complex it is, or what the challenges are. Please keep in mind, too, that we perform these designs with standard engineering formulas that are time tested and proven at no extra charge to the customer (”customer” means that they actually buy the components used in the solution from us. We will also design cell phone booster kits and cell phone repeater kits for a set fee, should the customer need bids on them from sources other than UnwiredSignal.com . Please keep in mind that we won’t sell any product or kit that we cannot offer a 30-day money back guarantee on. Therefore, although some of these solutions may seem a bit quirky or risky, we know that the engineering formulas we use and Wilson Electronics’ products are trustworthy. Otherwise, we couldn’t offer such a strong guarantee. The only risk to the customer is the shipping charge. they turned to us………

In 2007, after building its new National Communications Center,  Verizon Wireless discovered that it was a cell phone dead zone (no negatives implied, simply fact). They turned to us to design a cell phone repeater system for the 6,000 sq. ft facility. It was relatively simple to design the repeater system using standard radio frequency engineering formulas,  but the numerous employees that might have cellular devices in use simultaneously had to be taken into consideration during the process.

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