Pat, I've already done that and thought of this many years ago.
I bought a 65' motorized and licensed (DMV) tower trailer in 1980 when I
lived back in New Jersey. Thankfully where I lived there were no CC&Rs and
only a fairly loose tower ordinance, but this was an experiment and I wanted
the trailer for portable work anyway. It was a Tri-Ex MW65 with a HAM-III
on it and a crankover mechanism on a well designed tower with levelers and
outriggers and fully roadworthy with lights, safety chains etc.
My local building and safety inspector notified me pretty quickly that
although this was a mobile vehicle, it would not be permitted to leave the
tower "erect" and elevated for a variety of reasons covered by municipal
code, restricting the size of trailers parked longer than overnight on
private property and lots of other stuff.
In most communities there is a "disturbing the peace" ordinance that sweeps
with a very wide broom as well and can often be used to defend against
almost anything out of the ordinary that isn't specifically permitted.
Where I lived (Mt. Olive, NJ at the time), my permanently installed and
permitted towers were okay and could stay up forever, but the trailer had to
go! And I thought it was rather pretty....
-WB2WIK/6
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barthelow [mailto:aa6eg@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:48 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [BULK] - [TowerTalk] Portable Tower Solutions, vs Regulations
Folks:
If the daunting task of permitting, engineering, constructing, and
implementing a fixed tower at your home runs into so many roadblocks,
hinderances, can you/we rethink this?
If you purchased a motorized, self supporting, tower trailer...say a 65
footer, from a commercial supplier, and parked it beside, behind, your
house, or elsewhere on your property, set the outriggers or other temporary
structural support members, and mounted your antennas on it, could you be
exempt from some (any?) of the regulatory headaches that accompany a
permanent installation?
As long as the tower trailer was licensed, and able to be moved, could
authorities argue effectively against its use as a temporary antenna support
in your yard? If it worked so well that it became 'long term' temporary,
would that be grounds for the opposition to demand that you stop?
73, DX, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG aa6eg@hotmail.com
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