LCB Monthly Meetings

One of the main objectives of this blog was to report on the monthly broadband meetings. I will keep an archive of these on a separate page as well (LCB Monthly).

Every month a meeting is held by the board of LCB to discus matters arising in the day to day running of this community interest company as well as looking towards the future. The board consists of the following volunteers:

Steve Sanders (Chairman)
Trevor Joseph
Brian Lewis
Judith Phillips
Bruce Williamson

I will try and publish an edited summary of these meetings each month as soon as possible afterwards that are of interest to subscribers or the community at large - for example I won't bother reporting what bills have been paid, unless it is particularly noteworthy.

Meeting on 6th December

We were joined at the meeting by Alan Ronald, Broadband Development Manager for Herefordshire Council who explained more about their strategy for delivering superfast (>30MB/S) broadband to the whole county as soon as possible - hence the questionnaire, broadband champions etc.The current situation of LCB was discussed as well as the outlook for the future. We will deliver news on this as and when we have it!

It was agreed that in order to convey factual information to subscribers and the community the Lingen Blogspot should be revived or copied.

The recent downtime was also discussed - the problem being not just down to the batteries running low, but that one of them was indeed faulty and of course the whole set up is reliant on our engineer being available to safely change them. This is a potentially dangerous exercise due to the high voltages involved, so it is not an option for anyone to simply have a go at changing them.

Meeting 10th January

I wasn't able to attend this one due to work commitments, however in summary:

Steve and Trevor had met with Councillor Olwyn Barnett at the Cadwell transmitter site - the purpose being to present her with a better understanding of how the system currently works. Also to re-emphasize the reliance that the community places on it and how with the right investment it could made available to others within the area who are currently unable to source conventional broadband.

There are 2 or 3 potential new customers - to sustain and even develop the service new customers are very welcome and any leads will be followed up.
 
The signal from Mountain Building has been slightly problematic recently. This again down to recent overcast weather conditions and shorter daylight hours. It must be noted that due to their increasing age the batteries they are unable to hold their power for quite so long and are taking longer to charge.

Date set for next meeting of 14th February - what could be more romantic than discussing broadband!