Beaver Island Michigan

... And it just came back.

From the Great Lakes Energy map, it looks like power is out for the whole Island.

That sounds like a great idea, Brendan! Thanks much!

If only we had a garage...

But good advice on the winterizing steps... that's about what I figured.

When we first bought our cottage, we brought an old mini-van up, and Gordon would transport it to/from the airport and winterize it for us. For various reasons, we got rid of that vehicle and for the last several years have brought our "real" car back and forth on the boat. We're shortly g...

Does anyone know about the work being done along Kings Highway? Looks like trenching a new cable along the side of the road north of the radio towers. (A sign of better internet to come???).

Fred, you may have already done this, but you need to program a PL tone into your radio in order to key those repeaters. The 146.68 machine uses 110.9 Hz.

Hi -- I'm a ham (call N8UR) and have a modest station at our cottage on East Side Drive. There is a repeater system located on a tower in Stutsmanville (I hope I spelled that right) on the mainland that is easy to access from a car or even a handheld radio on the east side. I am not sure how it work...

We're on AT&T and have used a femtocell here for years. But it's only as good as the DSL service, and that's been troublesome. This year I tried to use the "wifi calling" option on my phone instead of the femtocell and that may have been even worse; the phone seemed to suck up all our ...

What I'd really like to know is where the tower sites are for each company... I see a lot of antennas on the Donegal Bay Road tower, another batch on the Kings Road hill tower, nothing on the Peaine fire station tower, and what used to be on the roof at Powers Hardware seems to be gone. And there ma...

I either lost track or wasn't paying attention... could someone summarize where the current cell sites are on the Island for the various carriers, and if there are plans for expansion in the next year or two? All I know is that AT&T coverage on East Side Drive south of the Peaine fire station ha...

Hi -- Our deck and boardwalk need power washing, sealing, and a few boards replaced, and we are looking for someone who could do that for us. We'll be here until about Sep. 3 and would like to get an estimate by then, but the work can be done later this fall.

Please call John at 448-2146.

Thanks!

We have a 34 inch Toshiba HDTV (CRT type) free to anyone willing to haul it up the stairs. It works fine, has a great wide screen (16:9) picture, and is in good physical condition. It's large and heavy -- definitely a two-person carry -- but is a very nice TV. Call John or Jody at 448-2146. We're on...

I saw in the Wednesday Charlevoix paper that the city council directed the parking regulations be revised to allow multiple vehicles owned within a family to share a parking permit.

Best wishes Gordon, and hope you have a speedy and complete recovery!

John and Jody