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WATANABE: Thank you. Yes, Mr. Domingo? <br />DOMINGO: Were you and your neighbor, the McCulloughs, the only ones that were <br />not notified of this hearing? <br />BLANCATO: I don’t know who was and who was not notified. All I know, the <br />McCulloughs are close neighbors to mine and we are both adjacent to this facility. I believe, I <br />did talk to a representative of the company who is the consultant for Crown Castle, and they said <br />they sent out 140 letters. I don’t know who they sent the letters to, but they didn’t send any <br />letters to us. And we are 300 feet away from this facility, and should have been notified by law <br />or by whatever requirement. <br />WATANABE: By rule, yeah, there’s a 500-foot notice -. <br />DOMINGO: It is a requirement. Have you – you mentioned that you had a friend who <br />took readings of the effects of the wave signals – have you seen the meter and its actual <br />recordation of the impact? <br />BLANCATO: Yes. Yeah, she gave me the, my renter who moved out purchased a meter, <br />and she gave it to me one day and I spent some time walking around the neighborhood. As you <br />go down Kynnersley Road and leave the area, then the radio frequency waves go down; as <br />you’re walking around my property and the McCulloughs’ property and down Kynnersley Road, <br />the frequency went up. It wasn’t a very, you know, with all due respect, it wasn’t a very <br />expensive meter, and I’m no expert. So this is why I asked Crown Castle to send a <br />representative out, or an engineer, that could, you know, allay our concerns and show us a <br />correct meter that there were no excessive readings in our area. <br />DOMINGO: Were there fluctuations or pulsations of the signal that were, where it had <br />been televised by those antennas? Were there pulsations or fluctuations of your meter? <br />BLANCATO: No, it was just, you turn it on and the thing would just gradually go up, <br />you know, to a certain level, and it would pulsate somewhat but it stayed in excessive levels. <br />One other thing I did forget to mention is that on quiet evenings – most of the time we are <br />blessed with ka makani, the winds of Kohala – but on quiet evenings the facility has grown to a <br />point where we hear the hum of fans running in the facility and there is generators that go on <br />when there is loss of power to the generators, then these generators kick on. And it’s, you know, <br />disturbing to those of us who live in a country and enjoy peace and quiet. <br />WATANABE: Any further questions? Mr. Alameda? <br />ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. You mentioned your tenant having some <br />physiological effects. Have you experienced any physiological effects yourself? <br />BLANCATO: Myself, I have not, you know, other than, you know, getting older and <br />having stiffer joints and that kind of thing and loss of hearing. But she came and started to <br />experience these things when she rented our place, and she didn’t know the cell phone tower was <br />EXHIBIT D <br />5 <br /> <br />