Beacon Wireless

04/07/2026

Special Weather Statement

4:34 PM PDT Monday 6 April 2026

Strong and gusty westerly winds.

What:
- Wind gusts up to 70 km/h.

When:
- This evening through Tuesday morning.

Impacts:
- Strong wind gusts may toss loose objects and break tree branches.
- Local utility outages are possible.
- Disruptions to services and travel are possible.

Additional information:
A vigorous cold front will cross the South Coast this evening. Strong westerly winds gusting up to 70 km/h will develop in the wake of the front. The winds will ease Tuesday morning.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or post reports on X using .

In effect for:

Southern Gulf Islands

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03/31/2026

Warburton Update

Sean is a superstar. We almost. got it going this. afternoon.Then. we gave it more try and it's. up . Everyone should be on. It's even pretty. good.Not. running at 100% but at least 60%

This was my note from Sig .
Please remember it is a temporary fix till we do the. big job on Thursday
So fingers crossed this holds for us till then

Have a nice evening
We all at Beacon thank you for your support

Cheers. Liz

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03/30/2026

Hi Liz,

Mt. Warburton provides the primary connection for service on Mt. Warburton and Mt. Tuam. During last weeks storm, the link did not recover from the outage. Thanks to your initiative, we got a climber from Galiano to spend the day on Saltspring climbing the tower on Mt. Bruce. I spent hours with him trying to restore the link. The conclusion was that the issue must be on Saturna. Sean returned from Spring break yesterday, and spent the better part of today, first verifying all the equipment was functioning, and then climbing 275’ up the tower to see if there was any alignment issues on the tower. I worked with him all afternoon trying to restore the link.

The conclusion is that there must be physical failure on one side or the other - not the radios themselves, rather the actual antenna. I have ordered two new large antenna and radios for good measure. I should have them by Wednesday and will take them to Saltspring. I will assemble, configure, and ship one to Sean directly Thursday morning by boat with Paul Sinclair. The second will be for Mt. Bruce, which I will install at the same time as Sean installs Warburton. That will eliminate all of the variables at play.

Sean is investigating if he has some smaller dishes on hand on Saturna. If so, he will see about installing the smaller dish/radio to get some connectivity back in place earlier. But no guarantees.

Thanks,

Sig

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03/30/2026

Warburton Update
A note from Sig

Sean spent all morning on Warburton. At first we verified all of the devices were up an running. They recovered from the outage and there is no evidence that there was any issue. So then Sean went up the tower. Again no obvious issues. Of course Mt Bruce was socked in. Still we tested a number of options. Frankly, I can’t tell you what’s wrong. I’ve ordered two new dishes for both Islands. I should have my hands on them later tomorrow. I need to get 2 new AirFiber radios - just to be sure. And I’ll have Paul Sinclair bring one dish to Saturna, and I’ll replace the dish on Mt. Bruce. I can’t tell you more, other than the radio were damaged in the wind. There is not clear and obvious fault - just doesn’t work. Sean is going to try and put a temporary smaller dish up tomorrow, in hopes that it’s just the Saturna side. So, 1) hoping to get a temporary configuration up and running, 2) the link will be replaced on Thursday.

03/28/2026

Warburton Update

Unfortunately today on Mt Bruce we were not able to retrieve. the. connection.
Sunday we will have a climber at MT Bruce , Saltspring and one on the Warburton , Saturna .
I will post the ETA for service on as soon as soon as the team notifies me...

Thank you

Liz

03/27/2026

Warburton Update
Our tower climber. will be arriving at. MT Bruce. at. 2pm
We hope to have service. restored by. 3/4 ppm
As we don't believe the issue it on the Warburton side
Our tower climber is on standby in case we need to go up on the Warburton side which would. be the worst case scenario.

Thank you

liz
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03/27/2026

For those connected to Warburton ,Saturna

The best we can identify at this time is that the wind storm knocked one of the radios out of alignment.

We are trying to coordinate someone on site.

Regards,

Sig

03/19/2026

Good Morning

Here is the explanation from Sig my brother who is the owner of Beacon
We had an issue on our side which took us by surprise and was quite the task to figure it out
It took us a few tries yesterday , this is why there were connection issues.

Here is Sig's explanation

I upgraded the software on a router on Mt. Bruce yesterday. It caused the router to “seize up” for lack of better explanation. It took a while to figure what was causing the problems. Then this morning it had recurred, so I downgraded the software to the previous version over the past hour. Just need the network links to rebalance and it will be back to normal.

Sorry. Certainly not an advertised feature of the upgrade.

Sig

Thank you for your patience

liz@beacon

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03/18/2026

We have been notified about and we are. investigating.
Thank you for your patience

liz@beaacon

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12/16/2025

Yellow Warning - Wind

4:36 AM PST Tuesday 16 December 2025

Impact Level: Moderate

Forecast Confidence: High

Westerly winds gusting to 100 km/h are expected.

Where: West Vancouver Island, Southern Gulf Islands, Greater Victoria and Malahat Highway - Goldstream to Mill Bay.

When: This evening until early Wednesday morning.

Remarks:
A vigorous cold front will move across Vancouver Island tonight. In the wake of the front, strong westerly winds will develop over southern Vancouver Island with gusts up to 100 km/h. Winds will ease early Wednesday morning as the front tracks inland.

Local utility outages are possible.

Secure loose objects. Stay away from fallen power lines.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or post reports on X using .

For more information about the alerting program, please visit: Colour-coded Weather Alerts.

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12/15/2025

Due to the storm that has hit the South Coast there are many power outages through out the gulf islands.
Most of Galiano is out of power.
Mt Bruce is on our back haul system Customers still have service. We are working on restoring as much as we can

Thank you

Liz

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12/12/2025

Reid Island
Dan White will go start the generator
EST time on 3 pm

Thank you Liz

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