[TowerTalk] Happy news for a change

[BRENT BAUM]

Good deal for K8JHR. The small Utah town I live in requires a permit for the tower foundation, everything else is unrestricted. Guess it helps to have a former ham in the building ordinance department. Our county and state are similarly unrestricted.
73, K7MEI



> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:08:27 -0700> From: n6kj.kelly at gmail.com> To: cpwendling at yahoo.com> CC: TowerTalk at contesting.com; jruing at ameritech.net> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Happy news for a change> > 55 ft seems to be a common number all around the country. It's> probably just like boilerplate zoning ordinances and boilerplate> CC&Rs. Someone picked that number long ago and others just followed> suit. I could point to a handful of cities in my area with 55 ft.> limits. I'm fortunate that my city actually had a ham help craft> their ordinance and thus we DO have a 65 ft limit instead of 55.> > > On 8/12/08, Chris Wendling <cpwendling at yahoo.com> wrote:> > Just curious as to why 55 ft was chosen. Seems like 65ft (about 1 wavelength on 20m)> >> > which would allow a good low angle radiation pattern on 14Mhz, would be> > better for hams. I wonder if they thought about reasonable ham> > requirements for emergency communications, etc. when they picked that> > number?> >> >> >> > CW-AI4MI> >> > --- On Tue, 8/12/08, Richards <jruing at ameritech.net> wrote:> > From: Richards <jruing at ameritech.net>> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Happy news for a change> > To: TowerTalk at contesting.com> > Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 11:19 AM> >> > Greetings TowerTalkians => >> > Good news and bad news:> >> > The Good News... my city allows towers and> > antennas, and there are NO PERMITS and> > NO INSPECTIONS !!> >> > The Bad News is there is a limit of 55 feet.> >> > Fortunately, that suits my plans and my budget, so I do not> > have to fight City Hall to get permission go higher.> > At least not yet...> >> > So... up to a height of 55 feet, it is, essentially, unregulated.> > Cool, eh? Can ya dig it? Unbelievable.> >> > [I figure you guys might understand my glee...picture me> > giggling a dirty-old-man-kind-of-laugh under my breath all> > day like I know a dirty little secret no else knows... ;-)> >> > =========== Richards -- K8JHR ================> >> > _______________________________________________> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > TowerTalk mailing list> > TowerTalk at contesting.com> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk> > _______________________________________________> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > TowerTalk mailing list> > TowerTalk at contesting.com> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk> >> _______________________________________________> > > > _______________________________________________> TowerTalk mailing list> TowerTalk at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk