[TowerTalk] Best choices for 27' height limit.

[W3OA]

Jesus - 


I agree with Pete - Don't quit. 

On my first call to the zoning office I was told there was a 40 foot 
limit.  Then I bought a copy of the zoning ordinance and studied it.  It 
looked to me like ham towers were exempt from the limit.  Then I went in 
and talked to the head of the planning office. He agreed with me. Lesson 
learned: Sometimes the people who answer the phone just give you a 
"safe" answer if they don't know the real answer.

Just finished installation of my stack yesterday.  A C-4E at 70 feet and 
a C-3E at 40 feet all mounted on a Heights fold over tower and connected 
with a Comtek Systems Stack-2 stack switch. I'm a happy ham.

Good luck with your system.

Dick - W3OA

>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:18:31 -0400
>From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Best choices for 27' height limit.
>	Suggestions please?
>To: "Jesus Castro II" <kc6pmt at hotmail.com>
>Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
>Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20050915111436.02152a10 at mail.adelphia.net>
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>First of all, don't quit.  That height limit is quite possibly impermissible under PRB-1.  I would check with ARRL for a Volunteer Counsel near you and talk with him or her.  The hamlaw reflector (ham-law at altlaw.com, subscribe by sending mail to listserver at altlaw.com, with subscribe ham-law in the body of the message) is your best site for discussion of such issues.  K1VR's excellent book, published by ARRL, is another good source.
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>73, Pete N4ZR
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>At 07:11 PM 9/14/2005, you wrote:
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>>My dreams were crushed when I called the City Planning Office where Im going to build a station and the man said the height limit was 27'. The future site is a typical city lot.  It looks like I can no longer put up a stack of C3's and a 2 el 40m.
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>>I would like your thoughts on my best options to build the best station for 10-160 that's possible under these devistating peramiters.
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>>Thanks all
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>>Jesus - KC6PMT
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