[BC] People asking questions....

[Mike McCarthy]

On a station here, a radial passed through the then Inland Steel plant 
along Lake Michigan.  The plant was so big it had it's own bridge over a 
rail yard and we could easily get 3 fully spaced points (and as many as 5) 
along the radial on the bridge and the plant going out to the 
lakefront.  They would have been wonderful points.

We called the plant manager asking permission and he flat our refused under 
any circumstances short of a court order.  While we did get the point on 
the bridge, we could not get the other two.  From what I recall of the 
original proof, they needed to go out onto the Lake to get more points on 
that radial as a result.

I have another station with 5 radials which pass through what will be 
Lincoln Airport if/when it's built.  All points on those radials within 5 
miles, including 2 MP's, will be next to inaccessible without carefully 
arranging with the airport authority.  Fortunately, we did the last partial 
with GPS.  So locating the points will not the problem. The real challenge 
will be convincing them we need to go onto an active runway for the 
points..... ;-)

MM

At 05:03 PM 3/11/2009 -0400, Mike Murrell wrote
>I ask who we should speak to in order to get
>permission and I was told there was no way we would ever be allowed on that
>property to do anything. I said ok and left and we turned it over to the
>manager who in fact never got permission to get access to the property.  I
>never heard any more about it so I guess they can still pass their
>measurements.
>Mike