We ask the Okanogan County PUD to show its work. This page is us holding to the same standard: when someone outside this effort tells us we got something wrong and they turn out to be right, we fix it and we say so here.
Every entry below was raised by someone else — the District, its staff, a local provider, a competitor. Those are the ones that count publicly, and they are the harder ones to publish. What we said stays visible next to what it says now. Nothing here has been quietly deleted.
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What this page is and isn't. It logs substantive corrections raised from outside — a published claim that was wrong or overstated and has changed. It is not a diary of our own editing: we revise drafts, tighten wording and catch our own mistakes in review constantly, and none of that belongs on a page like this. If you think something on this site is wrong today, tell us — if it holds up, it goes here with your name on it.
Technical
The tower in the 3D field guide is a simplified drawing, not a portrait of the real one
What we saidThe “Climb the Tower” guide drew a cylindrical steel pole and stated: “No lattice — the PUD’s sites are tapered steel monopoles.”
What it says nowThe guide keeps the simplified pole, because it keeps the radios readable, but now says plainly that it “is not a portrait of any one structure” and that real mountaintop sites vary — lattice towers, guyed masts and poles, often several sharing one ridgetop. Station 01 links to the real summit on a satellite map so anyone can look for themselves.
A PUD tower technician pointed out that the structure at Jackass Butte is a lattice tower. The drawing was always meant as a teaching diagram about the radio equipment, but the sentence asserted something specific about the District’s towers that we could not support. We have no verified photograph of that structure, so the copy now claims nothing about it.
Caught by: A tower technician at the Okanogan PUD. · Pages affected: climb.php, news.php
Technical
The PUD can still buy its Cambium access points
What we saidThat the network “runs on hardware the PUD can no longer buy,” that the gear was “discontinued and end-of-life,” and that “a system you can’t buy parts for can’t simply be operated forever.”
What it says nowThe equipment is aging and its support has a published end date, but it can still be purchased today. We now argue from the District’s own memo — the access points are “no longer keeping up with demand” and sites are “severely congested with no possibility for expansion” — together with the December 31, 2027 support end-date, the manufacturer’s 2026 Nasdaq delisting under a going-concern warning, and the 2010 build date.
PUD staff said in a public meeting that they can still purchase the equipment. They were right, and we were wrong. We checked Cambium’s own product-lifecycle and discontinued-product pages: the PMP 450m access points the District’s memo names appear on neither list — only certain older subscriber-module SKUs are discontinued. The accurate version is also the stronger argument: the District’s own engineers saying the network is maxed out beats anything we could say about spare parts.
Caught by: Okanogan PUD staff, in a public Board meeting. · Pages affected: index.php, data.php — and one instance we missed on case.php, fixed July 20, 2026.
Framing
How we describe the District and the retail providers
What we saidWording that described the District as owning towers and selling access to resellers.
What it says nowThe District owns and operates the network — its own crews build and run it. The retail service providers sign customers up, bill them, answer the phone and perform installs. We keep that line sharp in both directions.
Local providers told us the earlier phrasing understated the District’s role and overstated theirs. Both halves matter to the argument we are making, so we fixed it site-wide.
Caught by: Local retail service providers. · Pages affected: faq.php, and site-wide
Found something wrong? Tell us. We would rather hear it from you than leave it standing. Corrections that hold up get made and logged here with credit, including when they come from the District or from people who think this whole effort is misguided.
Why keep this page at all? Because the argument on this site only means something if the numbers behind it can be checked — and a project unwilling to publish its own mistakes has not earned the right to ask the same of anyone else.