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<br />OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 18 of 68 <br />Lee Kerlin: That is some outdoor coverage, possibly in car, not very likely to be indoors. 1 <br /> 2 <br />Bob Hornik: It is not your optimal but it better than 0. 3 <br /> 4 <br />Lee Kerlin: It is better than 0. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Bob Hornik: Negative 98 is the next shade of green; you get better coverage than negative 104. 7 <br /> 8 <br />Lee Kerlin: Car… you could still potentially drop in car, possibly some home structures, not likely in metal commercial 9 <br />buildings and things like that. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Bob Hornik: And negative 90 is the olive color and that is better than negative 98 but not quite as good as 104, right? 12 <br /> 13 <br />Lee Kerlin: Of course. 14 <br /> 15 <br />Bob Hornik: How do you characterize a negative 90. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Lee Kerlin: We could send a good potential for indoor coverage, depending on the construction for residential, p ossible 18 <br />commercial, construction again, these things are hard to say. Are you in the basement of your home, in an interior 19 <br />room, or by a window? 20 <br /> 21 <br />Larry Wright: What is the objective for this line of questioning? 22 <br /> 23 <br />Bob Hornik: The objective is to demonstrate that with 105 at the Kerley Road site, you are getting expanded coverage, 24 <br />not quite the signal strength he prefers but my argument is that it is not your obligation to try to provide him the signal…. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Larry Wright: We have heard him and we have heard what he has to say as far as dropping calls. He has been sworn 27 <br />in and I think you are wearing down the board. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Bob Hornik: I would be careful about that but I also have to do my job for my clients too. 30 <br /> 31 <br />Larry Wright: I understand that but he is an expert and he has been sworn in. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Tom Johnson: I would like to call Bob Hill, he was sworn and he can speak to the conversations regarding alternative 34 <br />sites because that is a question the board had and Mr. Hornik had so I will have Mr. Hill speak to that. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Robert (Bob) Hill: I am Robert Hill, Bob, I live at 1300 ____, SC and I was sworn in. 37 <br /> 38 <br />Tom Johnson: The board asks about whether communications with the American Tower site, looked at as an option 39 <br />and … 40 <br /> 41 <br />Robert Hill: American Tower is a nationally known tower company that builds towers and leases spaces to all the 42 <br />carriers. We have a master lease agreement with them. How we did this bill doing over 200 s ites throughout the 43 <br />Carolinas, we vetted our MLA partnerships, which was Crown American Tower and SBA First. This tower before we 44 <br />even get at the skyway as veted. We look at the available ____ Center, the propagation didn’t look good and we ask 45 <br />them if there was a possibility of extending and we were told they couldn’t, we were told no, I don’t want to say the 46 <br />wrong reasons but I believe it was something to do with setbacks and the way it was designed. Does that answer? 47 <br /> 48 <br />Jeff Schmitt: So that means you talked with the people who have the other tower? 49 <br /> 50