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Tom Calder uses the Town's backhoe to drag the equipment
cabinet into position with Beverly's and Joe Ballard's help. We thank
the Town of Chebeague Island for helping us with the heavy lifting. |
Weighing probably 1000 pounds, the equipment cabinet is
carefully lifted as Bev and Joe guide it into place. |
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Beverly and Tiffany picking up after a job well done. |
Tom, Bev and Joe inspect the
data cable that will feed
the new DSL system. |
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| Andy Hinkley of Cornerstone
Communications (Charleston, Maine) works to connect 300 pairs of wires
that will eventually serve chebeague.net's customers. |
The equipment cabinets await
final wiring and configuration. |
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| Kim Emerson and Jeremy Manning
of Axiom Technologies (Machias, Maine) get ready to unload 400 pounds of
cinder blocks from a brand new Prius (don't tell Nancy!) |
The cinder blocks anchor our
radio transmitter (on the left) on the roof of Back Bay Tower in Portland.
That's Chebeague in the distance, about eight miles away. |
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| Kim and Jeremy create the
bandwidth link to Chebeague Island at Sam and Sally Ballard's home. |
Kim and Jeremy inspect their
work. |
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| FairPoint technician makes the
link to the telephone system. |
Kim, Jeremy and Andy head back
north after a successful day working on the installation of chebeague.net's DSL on the Island |
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| CMP does its thing
on a chilly Tuesday after Thanksgiving, 2012 |
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They may look like
a couple of lumberjacks, but it's Andy Hinkley and Ed Lawless
continuing the DSLAM and TOPIC wiring. |
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| Ed with his wife, Kathy |
That's Ken Pelton behind the
mask wiring the cabinet
on a cold December morning in 2012 |
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| Jim Supsky of ADTRAN
(Providence, RI) installs
the fancy stuff. |
They also serve who stand and
watch...and shiver. |
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Christmas Eve, 2012
Drew Baxter travels from Bangor to replace a failed router
in the very chilly basement of the Chebeague Inn |
"Make Ready" work begins on the
fiber optic line with the
replacement of a utility pole near the Clam Shack.
Three more to be replaced and then they
make room on the poles for our cable. |
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Jim Haskell from FairPoint
prepares to move telephone lines
from an old short pole to a taller new pole. |
Tilson Technologies of Portland
send their bucket truck from
New Hampshire with a a large roll of fiber optic cable.
We lit up the fiber optic cable on November 5, 2013. |
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| The day before Thanksgiving,
2013, a
vicious windstorm knocked out the power on the Island for seven hours when a
tree snapped this pole near the cemetery, but our fiber optic cable (top
one, above the telephone lines) held. CMP trimmed the pole for later repair
and the Town crew removed the tree. The power lines are strung between the
neighboring poles out of the picture. |
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