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WOODWARD: I have a question that probably is a point of information. Wendell, you have done an amazing job. And I have been familiar with the radio station, so I’ll begin this with a little bit of information you didn’t convey. One is that there is no radio station currently that reaches all of Ka‘u, none of them on this island. And if for nothing else, just from the standpoint of Civil Defense, that’s a problem because there are blackout areas for all the stations in different places in Ka‘u. Wendell’s station is the only one that once it gets up and running and gets all of its antennas in place will cover all of Ka‘u. So apart from all the other good things they do for the community, and they do a lot of very good things, from purely the standpoint of Civil Defense,they will be the Civil Defense ratio station for Ka‘u because it is the only one that will have coverage. And they’re workingwith Civil Defense. That’s a done deal once they get, you know, once they get up and running and get full coverage. Now to your point, you know, I think it’s beyond our power at this point to make a business decision for Castle and, or -. What is it -? FOX: Crown Castle. WOODWARD: Crown Castle, yeah, Crown Castle. It’s really up to them. But if they want goodwill --and people do remember, and I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt for them to, and it would surelyhelp the community -- for them to give you a break on a location. KA‘EHU‘AE‘A: Yeah, I talked with Eric back there so, you know, he has been talking with our engineer. So, you know, something can develop. So if everything goes and they get their antennas up, we’d sure like to attach to their antenna up there. It won’t take much for us to attach our stuff up there. WOODWARD: Yeah, okay. All right, thank you KA‘EHU‘AE‘A: One last thing I want to add, I got 14 volunteers up there, two managers and the rest announcers, all 14 are from Ka‘u. So we’re making sure that Ka‘u represents Ka‘u on a community radio station. I’m the only immigrant, from Hilo, up there. KERN: Commissioner Ono. ONO:Yes. Out of curiosity, when you say you want to attach your transmitter -. KA‘EHU‘AE‘A: Yeah, no, the antenna. ONO: Antenna. KA‘EHU‘AE‘A: We’d like to have a little storage shed so we can put our transmitter in there. ONO: Okay, I’m not good at these. So would you be attaching another panel up to the pole or are you just attaching a wire touse one of those panels. KA‘EHU‘AE‘A: It’s going up on a pole; and we’re going to be below Verizon and the rest of them. We’re going to be the lowest on the pole. And it’s a new kind of antenna. It’s not that big, you know, like the television disk or something like that. It’s a small, small as that panel of Walter’s computer. ONO:Excuse me, Mr. Chair. I’m just curious. Does this not change the application when you’re asking for an attachment to the panel, not the panel, to the pole? KERN: It may and that’d be more of a question for staff. 8 EXHIBIT B