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of there, but we do, do those on rooftops, and that’s a very serious thing. We measure <br />everything. So, it’s a much bigger concern on like apartment buildings where people live closer <br />to the antennas, but for towers, never comes up. <br /> <br />HENKEL: Thanks. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Any further questions from the Commissioners? Mr. Inaba, would you have any <br />cross examination for Mr. Shaffer? <br /> <br />INABA: Yes, thank you. I just had a couple questions. Would a greater area of the Ainaloa <br />Subdivision be covered if the tower was located on the Ainaloa side of the Boulevard? I’m <br />looking at Exhibit H and you know toward the bottom of the subdivision, there’s a lot of yellow, <br />green, blue, to the bottom of the subdivision. And my question is if the tower were actually <br />moved onto the Ainaloa side, up Ainaloa Boulevard, would the coverage improve? <br /> <br />SHAFFER: No, basically the terrain is flat across the road there, so there wouldn’t be any <br />increased coverage from moving it. <br /> <br />INABA: Would, in these cell towers, is a higher tower, would that improve the coverage? <br /> <br />SHAFFER: Typically, that’s true, yes. <br /> <br />INABA: That is true? <br /> <br />SHAFFER: Yes. <br /> <br />INABA: For, you know the other towers that are shown on this Exhibit H, the coverage area <br />seem broader, and what is the reason for that? <br /> <br />SHAFFER: Mostly terrain. So, if you look at Hawaiian Paradise Park, for example, that’s the <br />Verizon Tower right at the church there, right on the main highway. Hawaiian Paradise Park is <br />like a gently sloping straight downhill, so it propagates pretty well downhill. Ainaloa, as I <br />mentioned, has this ridgeline where it curves, so it, these computer simulations are based almost <br />exclusively off terrain. They’re quite accurate. They’re not very accurate in places like <br />Honolulu, where you have a bunch of man-made structures, but places where the terrain is the <br />main factor for degrading the signal, the computer modeling is quite accurate. We compare it to <br />our drive testing, so we verify that. <br /> <br />INABA: How high are the towers like the one in Pāhoa and the one in Kurtistown? <br /> <br />SHAFFER: I think Pāhoa—you’re really testing my memory—I think Pāhoa is 85 feet. I think <br />Puna is a hundred feet. Kurtistown is maybe a hundred feet. We’re at eight, yeah, we’re at 80 <br />feet on Kurtistown, yeah that’s right, we’re co-located there. <br /> <br />27 <br />EXHIBIT F <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />