[TowerTalk] Re: TowerTalk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 78

[Jim OConnell]

AB2OS wrote:

>    5. Tower/mast/antenna height -- a clarification (Alan AB2OS)

> Alan AB2OS <ab2os at att.net>
> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:20:44 -0400
> To:
> towertalk reflector <towertalk at contesting.com>
>> 
> The wording in my original message was my own. The relevant section of 
> the ordinance is:
> 
> "Sec. 3A.04 Applicability.
> A.     New towers and antennas. All new towers and new antennas in the 
> township shall be subject to this article, except as otherwise provided 
> in this section.
> B.     Amateur radio station operators/receive only antennas; television 
> antennas. This article shall not govern any tower, or the installation 
> of any antenna:
> (i)     That is under seventy (70) feet in height; and
> (ii)     Is owned and operated by a federally-licensed amateur radio 
> station or is used exclusively for receive only antennas for voice or 
> television reception."
> 
> I take this to mean that no part of the installation may be more than 
> 70' above grade.

Alan:
The ordinance contains an exception for amateur antennas under 70' above 
grade.  Go and ask the Building Department whether you can add a short 
mast above your 70' tower height so that the antenna can be mounted. I 
expect that the Sec 3A.04 really is aimed a cell towers and may require 
a special use or variance for anything over the amateur exception. 
People writing ordinances always forget that towers usually come in 10' 
sections.

73, Jim O'Connell, W9WU   ARRL VC