[Towertalk] NY State antenna legislation

[Jim White]

And there you have it the definitive answer is its ok if most people are
happy with it...I don't think so!

Put me on the list for unhappy with 95 feet - I am not an average ham, I am
the one who specializes in making radio contacts and as such seeks to obtain
optimum antennas to do it with...95 does not cut it.

I am not a communicator I am an operator, something that seems to be
slipping away as we become more and more a bunch of clones. I am a
competitive soul, I want to be the first one through the pileup and the one
with the highest rates in the contest BECAUSE I DESIGNED DEBUGGED AND
EXECUTED the best antenna system.

This means stay away with regulations...just last week the courts in San
Francisco said we have to change our pledge because it is discriminatory -
hasn't this country seen yet how too much law is ONLY suicidal!

K4OJ

----- Original Message -----
From: <SavageBR@aol.com>
To: <jljarvis@adelphia.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] NY State antenna legislation


> In a message dated 6/30/2002 1:49:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jljarvis@adelphia.net writes:
>
>
> > It would be inappropriate--and probably negative in impact,
> > for out of state hams to comment on a NY legislative matter.
> >
> > However, if this law does, indeed, specify a 95 foot limit, it's a
> > gross mistake.  Right now, PRB-1 allows an application for "the
> > intended purpose."   95 feet is barely adequate for stacked antennas
> > on 10 and 15.  It is sub-optimal on 20. It is inadequate for a 40m yagi
> > unless your intended purpose is domestic communications.  It is
inadequate
> > for an 80 meter dipole, for international work, and it is inadequate for
a
> > 160 meter vertical, for pete's sake.
> >
> You must live in a different world. Most of the Ham community would be
quite
> pleased with HF antennas allowed up to 95 ft.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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