When I applied for a permit in Lexington, Mass., some years ago,
they handed me a form that denied my permit even before I was
done filling out the permit form.
It seems most small towns outside larger cities use the permit route
to discourage tower installation.
I was told, informally, to just go ahead and put it up and hope no
one complained.
Another reason I know live in Arizona.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, David Robbins <k1ttt@arrl.net> wrote:
> Nothing special here, in mass ham towers are exempt from most zoning
> restrictions. In my rural town they have never required a building permit
> for a tower, but did for a solar panel array.
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Markku Oksanen
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 17:12
> To: Hans Hammarquist; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Tower regulations for home brew towers in the
> US?
>
> ALL
> Thanks for the informative answers. Looks like things differ so much from
> place to place.It seems that there are couple of pretty big contest
> stations
> in the North East (KC1XX for one).What is the situation for large towers in
> Maine or Vermont or Massachusetts? Anybody form those states "listening"?
> Thanks!Markku
>
>
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > From: hanslg@aol.com
> > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:15:53 -0500
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Tower regulations for home brew towers in the
> US?
> >
> >
> > Hi Markku,
> >
> >
> > As I have lived in both Sweden and USAI think I can give you some extra
> insight in the mechanism erecting aradio tower in USA.
> >
> >
> > USA is a country ruled by lawyers andinsurance company. That put some
> restrictions on what you dare to do as you most likely will get sued if
> somebody feels they can get hurt or have some other "economic impact".
> Lately we have also seen an influence of what iscommonly called "tree
> huggers", people that have an urge to stopanything that remotely can be
> called "development" in the name of"saving the earth and the nature".
> >
> >
> > During my time in Sweden (I moved toUSA 30 years ago) I erected many
> antennas and whatever you needed to"get the signal out". Nobody even
> bothered to say anything unlessit disturbed their TV reception to an
> intolerable level.
> >
> >
> > When I came here, neighbors neverbothered me with my radio
> > experiments. I lived then in Brooklyn, NY.I still have a 30 foot mast
> > on my roof there. (It's "grand-fathered"to stay there.)
> >
> >
> > A few years ago I decided to erect a 85 foot towerin Vermont. I
> experienced a strong resistance from neighbors thatdidn't want "their
> horizon be disturbed by technology". 1 1/2 yearlater I had my permit. "My
> town
> hadn't discovered the power orrequesting a professional engineering
> evaluation or it would have costme a lot more than the application fee.
> >
> >
> > As you can see from the responses atTT, USA is a stronghold for
> bureaucrats and "tree huggers" that know how to make life aroller-coaster
> ride. Do what you can to keep they out of Finland. Youmanage to push out
> both Swedes and Russians in the past. Keep up thegood work.
> >
> >
> > 73 de,
> >
> >
> > Hans - N2JFS/SM6BXX
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Markku Oksanen <markku.a.oksanen@kolumbus.fi>
> > To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>; Markku Oksanen
> > <markku.a.oksanen@kolumbus.fi>
> > Sent: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 5:24 am
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower regulations for home brew towers in the US?
> >
> >
> > All
> > Just because I am curious:
> > Here at OH-land even large towers can be home brew just like my 160
> > and 145 foot rotating towers.These have been made by a private small
> > company that made perhaps 200 towers through the years.Building permit
> > and zoning never questioned the "engineering" of the towers as the
> > responsibility in the end rests with the owner.In addition, home owner
> > insurance happily includes towers and covers damage without question.
> > How is the situation in the US? Looks like most towers are commercial
> > (Rohn, couple others) and it seems that a "professional engineer"
> > (correct??) needs to look at the mechanics of the whole thing in order
> > to get a permit to put up a tower.
> > So, how, if at all, is it possible to build your own large towers?
> > Does anybody do this?
> > The towers I have are 1.5 feet a side with 2 inch tubes, inverted U
> > (0.7 inch) "cross bars". Only guyed at two levels and full of
> > aluminium, 8000 lb steel guy wires and ball bearing guy rings. And
> > they have survived some crazy storm too in the past 15 years.
> > MarkkuOH2RA/OG2A/WW1C
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