[TowerTalk] FCC RF Safety Regs Info Sept 1

[W4EF@dellroy.com]

Hi Kurt,

Despite cries from a few vocal neighbors, the city granted my friend the building permit
for his 54 foot Triex crank-up (nested height of 21'). Although the tower has been installed
and inspected by the city, my friend is currently under orders not to do anything with the
tower until a judge can review his neighbor's petition for a temporary injunction against
the tower installation. The neighbors injunction is based upon an extremely imaginative
interpretation of old CCRs which were written for a now defunct homeowners association
which at one time had jurisdiction over my friends property (the old CCRs don't explicitly
prohibit antenna installations). My gut feeling is that my friend will prevail if the presiding
judge reviewing the motion for injunction is at all reasonable (his neighbor's case is full of
holes).

Mike,
W4EF................................................................................................................................
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Andress" <K7NV@contesting.com>
To: "W4EF@dellroy.com" <W4EF@earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] FCC RF Safety Regs Info Sept 1


> "W4EF@dellroy.com" wrote:
>
> > I think this problem is overstated. I gave it some thought when a friend of
> > mines tower
> > permit went to public hearing recently. Handwringing over potential harm
> > caused by
> > amateur antennas that are typically many feet from exposed subjects, is
> > easily put in
> > prespective when you compare it with the proximity of the typical cellular
> > telephone
> > handset. How many "peasants with pitchforks" are going to deny a ham radio
> > operator
> > his tower permit in exchange for losing the convenience of their cell
> > phones? Especially
> > when you consider that a tower generally reduces public exposure levels when
> > compared
> > to the typical stealthy attic dipole.
> >
> > Of course I am assuming that the peasants are capable of making logical
> > conclusions. One
> > of the written comments that my friend received in response to the public
> > hearing notice for his
> > tower permit was from a medical doctor who was expressing concern over the
> > potential
> > "radiation fallout" from his antenna. Perhaps Cushcraft is putting depleted
> > Uranium in their
> > antennas and not telling us.
> >
> > Mike,
> > W4EF........................................................................
> > .....................................
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Yikes! And the guy is supposed to be an educated person!
>
> How did ur friend do in getting the special use permit? The locals just went
> stupid here with a 35' restriction and that is the way I have to go to put up a
> tower. Everything here for the last 5 years has been bootleg and all illegal in
> the face of the new code. No problems so far.
>
> --
> 73, Kurt, K7NV
>
>
>


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