[TowerTalk] FAA regulations for tower permit

[Steve Katz]

You might run the federal regulation past them:

§97.15 Station antenna structures.
(a) Owners of certain antenna structures more than 60.96 meters (200 feet)
above ground level at the site or located near or at a public use airport
must notify the Federal Aviation Administration and register with the
Commission as required by Part 17 of this chapter. 

(b) Except as otherwise provided herein, a station antenna structure may be
erected at heights and dimensions sufficient to accommodate amateur service
communications. [State and local regulation of a station antenna structure
must not preclude amateur service communications. Rather, it must reasonably
accommodate such communications and must constitute the minimum practicable
regulation to accomplish the state or local authority's legitimate purpose.
See PRB-1, 101 FCC 2d 952 (1985) for details.]

-WB2WIK/6

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Katz [mailto:rob.katz at thelegacycenter.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:55 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] FAA regulations for tower permit

I am in the process of obtaining a permit to put up a 70 foot tower, 
and I have been requested to "Provide evidence that the tower 
complies with FAA regulations and does not present a danger to 
navigation."

I'm 25 miles from the nearest airport, surrounded by trees as high or 
higher than the tower, and less than a mile from three broadcast 
towers that are hundreds of feet high.  My county planners should 
(hopefully!) be receptive to these "common sense" arguments (they 
have been so far), as long as I can provide a little bit of meat as 
well.

Can somebody point me to specific FAA regulations that I can quote 
that say that I'm OK since since I'm farther than XXX miles from an 
airport, under XXX feet high, etc.

Thanks and 73,
    Rob, KA1ARB
-- 
Rob Katz, Director
Legacy Center, Inc.

(919) 678-6000 x106
(919) 678-6015 fax
rob.katz at TheLegacyCenter.com
www.TheLegacyCenter.com
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