(mailing and posting)

Hi, Tiffany,

It's real good to see you back with us this year!  Thanks for posting your report, and for getting so much done at Sexton.

Some other schools with CPS wireless got other kinds of antenna -- probably because they changed some specs over time or maybe just because different contractors chose differently.  Anyway, some of  the newer  installations use card/antenna setups that seem to get better reception in more locations in the school.  OTOH, many of those styles involve a cord from the antenna that is hard-fastened to the card, and cannot easily be replaced as a separate part if pulled out.  So the twist-on antennas that Sexton has may have some countervailing advantages, in being fairly easily replaceable (and not terribly expensive, it turns out).  Of course, being easily twisted off is part of the reason they disappear -- so it's hard to say where the win is here.

It was interesting that you observed some accidental disconnection of antennas and maybe other attached parts, when students brush by in the computer rows.  We were prepared to attribute most of that to intentional activity by students, maybe malicious or maybe just bored fiddling around.  Thanks for the perspective with the reminder it can be accidental.

  Thanks,

  ==Mitch