[TowerTalk] Portable Tower Solutions, vs Regulations

[Rick Karlquist]

A city might try to call your tower trailer a "recreational vehicle" (RV)
or a "trailer" (which it is).

In many places, these are not allowed at all, or must be parked only
on pavement (and you can't pave over your lawn), or must not visible
from the street, etc.  I've never been able to understand why people
get upset about a neighbor parking a land yacht in his driveway,
but I know it riles up a lot of folks.

If an RV is allowed, call your tower an RV, with a deployable antenna,
just like some RV's have TVRO dishes, etc.

Rick N6RK

Pat Barthelow wrote:
> 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 at hotmail.com
>
>
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