The man who was photographed at my house with a radio antenna and laptop is Dean Hensley.
David DeGerolamo
Sky-Tek Now Serving Cherokee & Clay Counties
The Internet service availability in Far Western North Carolina has become a problem of nearly epidemic proportions. As the rest of the world continues to use the web as an integral part of daily life, residents of Murphy,NC have been suffering for years with spotty and unreliable High-speed Internet coverage. Thousands of residents are still unable to receive broadband connections in their home. “The people of Cherokee County have waited far too long for reliable broadband Internet service,” said Dean Hensley, CEO of Sky-Tek Communications. For the past 3 months Dean and his team have been hard at work building the infrastructure to serve Cherokee County with High Speed Internet coverage.
Good. Good that it wasn’t the government and incredibly good that you might be able to get broadband internet up there. Win-Win.
I don’t need internet as I already have DSL for several years which has met my needs.
Gotta be a relief, man.
I am not happy about this. enough damn signals blasting our dna already. then again we have fiber since we are near a school.
I used to work with guys who joked about the possibility of getting electrocuted when they took a tape measure out to measure something on top of a building covered in antennas (some transmitting, some receiving, some doing both). We wondered about the hazards of RF radiation (non ionizing) and one of them actually did some research on RF induced cancers. Seems the only documented case (nearly 20 + years ago) was a guy who worked around the transmission antennas on top of the Empire State building.
Granted, that was a long time ago. As wavelengths get shorter more biological bits and pieces become significantly long enough for RF to possibly interact. The stuff that seems like it might be a hazard (conjecture) is the sub millimeter wavelength stuff that could possibly cause damage at the cellular level. Research is pretty spotty on if it does or doesn’t cause damage. Like most of us you probably carry around a cell phone. It phones home to say to the “tower here I am” and you can verify this by putting your cell phone on top of your AM/FM clock radio. Most clock radios do a bit of a snap, crackle, pop when the cell phone checks in. Close proximity and high enough power levels make some electronics respond to out of band signals. You carry the cell phone in your pocket, close to your reproductive organs, stomach, liver, intestines, etc. This isn’t to scare you, but your microwave oven leaks as well. Is the long term risk worth it? Don’t have a clue.
I guess you were right…you’re not that effective….yet.
In this day and age and in a remote area like Murphy, a service person should absolutely contact you BEFORE showing up at your house, especially, if you’ve never met them or used their services before.
Did you ask Dean to come to your house and do this survey?
I have never heard of Dean or his company prior to 10:00 PM last night (September 30, 2013). I did receive a comment passed along from another blog site on Saturday night (September 28, 2013) with some information but I did not put it together until I received an email last night.
David- I plea to you that you please stop posting negative information about me online, or have Roger stop. Not sure which one of you is doing this. Dean was NOT sent there by me, and today he is very upset, and as a result we may lose Broad Ban Internet for our entire community because of the way you have handled this matter. You knew Saturday night from your other Blogger friend Dean’s name and company name. The info was sent to him upon his request, Mr. Brock. The entire group was notified of the facts, and they should have notified you. You could have called me, but no, you draw faulty conclusions like you do with many posts, which you fail to investigate the facts properly. If we fail to get Broad Ban now, you are the cause. Over two dozen neighbors are going to be really mad with you. I am not the only person with knowledge of your inaccurate post about Dean and misleading information. Your attacks on my name has reached an all time high too. I understand your life revolves around your NCRenegade, but you came to our neighborhood recently, and today causing much division. I spoke to Dean 30 minutes ago, and Dean told me someone from your address called for the evaluation. No harm was done, but you like everything else had to turn into an online conspiracy theory against you. Did you ask Dean if I made the request? NO, you did not, and instead you posted on a another forum that I was setting you up. Sad, really Sad! I suspect you do not want to handle this civilly and just desire more drama. Please be rational, enough! PLEASE DELETE the entire thread regarding your surveillance man post and Dean’s pictures. You are hurting his business reputation and I am sure he will not take it much more.
Respectfully,
Ed
Ironic that Ed Figueroa carries out a personal vendetta smear campaign, including deceit filled blind copy emails and Internet comments and posts against the author of this blog and then makes a wrongly assumed “plea” for him to stop the very action Figueroa is perpetrating himself. . . go figure.
good grief, will the drama with you EVER stop? This pissing contest is old. Whoever Dean is, his butt should not have been on someone’s porch doing a damn thing other than knocking on the door. And when he left, if he was legit, HE should have made contact with David-left a card, made a phone call -- SOMETHING; and from what I’ve seen, he made no effort to do so. Not very good business practice, and damn dangerous, IMHO
Identify yourself before when making accusations. David is the one creating drama. When David misleads and deceives others with bold face lies, I will have the courage to take a stand. Cowards will hide behind screen names. Why did he not delete this thread as requested by me. I would say that he enjoys the attention and drama. Just delete it. .
Ed Figueroa, you may have decided to use your name today . . . but most know that real cowards are the ones who create new email accounts and screen names to hide behind to carry out an ineffective, misguided, personal and vicious vendetta. Here’s a tip: ip addresses and other digital footprints leave a vibrant trail that’s easy to follow through cyberspace. As long as your attacks, including veiled threats, on David and others continue, so will continue the public response to expose you, your background, lies, and agenda. Find something else to occupy your time . . . like a job, and try focusing your energy on activities that actually involve you. Mind your own business and not that of everyone with whom you don’t agree or like. I’m praying for you.