05/19/2022
Yesterday, our owners officially received the keys to what we now call, the UltraCore tower located at the highest point in Chautauqua County. This will become our primary core tower in the coming weeks. It's not the tallest tower, however it does sit at the highest point in Chautauqua County just under 2,300ft at the top, which gives us amazing coverage capabilities hitting several different counties just from this one location. We are able to see Chautauqua County, Cattaraugus County, Warren County, McKean County and even both Erie County NY & PA.
The tower was previously utilized for radio communications and then decommissioned and abandoned. Left empty for several years, we reached out to the land owner & came to terms with the land owner who also just purchased the campground where the tower is located. We then received the keys and took ownership and operation of the tower. We do have a bit of work to complete so it can be brought up to code and commissioned as our core WISP tower. We also plan on putting up weather stations and PTZ cameras which will provide amazing weather data and footage as we will be able to track storms crossing the county live.
As we begin working on our tower, we will also be installing grounds wide Wi-Fi systems for Homestead Campground which will provide every camper with high speed internet access. This will be a big game changer for this campground as no cell phone provider has service there and internet options are poor. The grounds wide Wi-Fi will allow campers to utilize the internet for cell service as it will act as a personal cell phone service tower. As well as the ability to ditch the satellite dishes, antennas and cables and use a TV streaming service such as DirecTV Stream instead. Be sure to like and follow us for further announcements and when we plan to release to the general public.