To: | "Tower (K8RI)" <tower@rogerhalstead.com>,Michael Tope <W4EF@dellroy.com> |
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Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] Re: Importance of Amateur Radio Emergency Comms |
From: | Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net> |
Date: | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:44:59 -0700 |
List-post: | <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> |
At 02:49 PM 9/24/2004 -0400, Tower (K8RI) wrote:Michael Tope wrote: Sure.. towers for repeaters, etc., but I still think that emergency communications is a poor political justification for a tower and HF beam in a given ham's backyard. It's too easy, politically, to come up with a scheme that appears to provide an equivalent capability without requiring the city to allow me to put a tower in the backyard. It's not that hams don't provide a useful service (they do), it's that the potential for providing emergency communications is a pretty sketchy justification for an aesthetically undesirable tower and antenna. Far better to generalize a bit.. the quid pro quo argument, for one. Or, the fact that Congress and the FCC explicitly (in the 47 CFR rules) acknowledge that there are other "valuable to society" functions that hams provide (oddly, free comm services to charitable organizations is not among them, even though that's where a lot of hams provide a public service). The odds of getting a law passed to apply PRB-1 type rules to HOAs and CC&Rs are, in my opinion, fairly low. It's that treading on "private contractual rights" thing, and without a real showing of public value, or serious cash (i.e. satellite TV providers and TV broadcasters and the OTARD rules), I don't see it happening any time soon. But, what about working to get laws that prohibit CC&Rs from including rules forbidding transmitters (not towers, but transmitters)? My HOA used to have such a rule and with a bit of skillfull maneuvering, based on it being a blanket prohibition of all transmitters (including cellphones, garage door openers), I managed to get it removed, with no replacement rule. However, it's not unheard of for an HOA to have a No amateur or CB transmitters rule, and that would be a lot tougher to get the HOA to change, since very few resident's ox is being gored. _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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