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Planning and Zoning Commission <br />Minutes <br />October 11, 2022 <br />The Chair asked Mr. Prychodko to point thatout on the map. <br />Mr. Prychodko showed on the map. He saidright around here you have red to white which is <br />pretty much no coverage and that is indoors,and you are going to gain that coverage going up <br />there. You have different factors, you have terrain, you have elevation from the current site to <br />the other one,addto those changeswhatdirection are those antennae pointing.The antennae are <br />what makesa big difference on the extra gainin capacity and coverage where you need it. <br />The Chair said canyoujust turn the antennaethat you have currently? <br />Mr. Prychodko said it is toofar, it will not cover that far up because of terrain, plus it is 40 feet <br />lower than whatwe would beat 225,we are only at 190right now. The line of sight and the <br />terrain is going to depend on that.That is why we need to move it higherat thatnew location. <br />Mr. Hudspeth asked if FirstNet use the same signals that you use on the regular cell phone. <br />Mr.Prychodko said FirstNet is700 megahertz, that willbe on ourantennaswhenwe design the <br />site,it is going to have FirstNet coverage on it. We will be deploying FirstNet plus all our other <br />carrierson there,which include 5G has well. <br />Mr. Hudspeth said will this enhance FirstNet? <br />Mr. Prychodko said yes it will, typically we do not haveanyof the FirstNet back in the north <br />area,backinthere where we have no coverage. A lot of our dropped calls are in that arearight <br />there that we see for customers.It will definitelyimprove thecustomers in the FirstNet and <br />responders in that area. <br />The Chair said when you toggle back and forth, he does not see a lot of coverage differences in <br />Cabarrus County. He sees a little bit in Rowan, whywould it not make more sense to move the <br />tower further north? Have you all looked at that? To pick up better coverage north. It does not <br />seem like you are picking up that much difference. <br />Mr.Prychodko said you mean to go further north. <br />The Chair saidyes. <br />Mr. Prychodkosaid if we do that,we will lose the current coverage where we are. We will lose <br />our current footprint basically,to the south. <br />The Chair said you are proposing a new tower and coming off the existing tower? <br />Mr. Prychodko said yes. In order to keep the current footprintand the customers we have we <br />need to go up higher,so we do not lose those customers <br />33 <br /> <br />