[TowerTalk] Tower lawsuit

[Jon]

Is it at the back of the lot ?
Put a satellite dish or two on it...say it's to get a better signal.




On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:40 AM, john at kk9a.com <kk9a at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> That is surprising since Salisbury, NC is pretty rural.
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> GL,
> KK9A / 4
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> To:  <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:  [TowerTalk] Tower lawsuit
> From:  "Drax Felton" <draxfelton at gmail.com>
> Date:  Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:15:36 -0500
> List-post:  <towertalk at contesting.com">mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>
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> I thought this might interest you all as tower owners.
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> If anyone knows of other materials in my defense please forward them.
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> This a letter I sent to the ARRL:
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> Dear ARRL,
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> I would like to request the ARRL write a clarification letter on its
> letterhead to help me with an issue.
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> My neighbors have served me with a civil summons regarding my antenna
> tower.
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> We have a deed restriction that says that "no transmitting or receiving
> tower or antenna (other than those normally used for customary household
> radios and appliances) shall be permitted, and any satellite dish receivers
> must be located on the rear one-third of the lot."
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> Since the crux of my defense is around what is "customary" to use at home I
> was hoping to get the ARRL, the national association for amateur radio, to
> document for evidence that it knows that ham radio has been a "customary
> household appliance" for around a 100 years.
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> Their complaint also says that since I have an FCC license that makes my
> radios outside the normal custom of households too.  Clearly misinformed.
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> They also complain that if my tower falls it will land on other properties,
> which is impossible on my 2.5 acre lot, given the distances to the property
> lines.  The tower we're talking about is a double guyed, 60 foot stack of
> Rohn 25 with a HF Yagi on it.  Not a superstructure.  Even if it could fall
> its entire length it wouldn't even hit my own house.
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> I thank you for your help,
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> ARRL Member, KB3X,  Drax Felton
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