[TowerTalk] Tower Permits

[jcowens1 at comcast.net]

Lee:

Consider yourself lucky, but not necessarily wise. My tower cost $3000 to install with crane services, concrete pumping,  hole digging, and other expenses, and I wasn't willing to roll the dice and take a chance of loosing that investment. If you try and ignore city codes and they catch you, they can make you remove it which is also costly, and you can bet it would be more difficult to get the permit after trying to avoid the codes the first time. Your displeased neighbors or another ham that doesn't like you will eventually rat on you. I don't consider this good advice to follow.

John Owens - N7TK


Message: 1
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:01:04 -0500
From: "Its from Onion" <aredandgold at msn.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] tower and city hall
To: "towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
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I put up a 90 foot tower across from Hueytown, Alabama's city hall with not one 
snivel.
Why?  because I did not ask.  Your tower and communication is federally 
protected. 

The funny thing is 2 weeks before, a guy had went before the zoning board for a 
cell
tower on the hill behind my house and was denied.

He asked me how I got away with it.  Simple, I didn't ask.

Its been up 8 years now.

Lee
KE4VYN