[TowerTalk] Fwd: Tower regulations for home brew towers in the US?

[David Robbins]

Nothing special here, in mass ham towers are exempt from most zoning
restrictions.  In my rural town they have never required a building permit
for a tower, but did for a solar panel array.

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net


-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Markku Oksanen
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 17:12
To: Hans Hammarquist; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Tower regulations for home brew towers in the
US?

ALL
Thanks for the informative answers. Looks like things differ so much from
place to place.It seems that there are couple of pretty big contest stations
in the North East (KC1XX for one).What is the situation for large towers in
Maine or Vermont or Massachusetts? Anybody form those states "listening"?
Thanks!Markku


> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> From: hanslg at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:15:53 -0500
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Tower regulations for home brew towers in the
US?
> 
> 
> Hi Markku,
> 
> 
> As I have lived in both Sweden and USAI think I can give you some extra
insight in the mechanism erecting aradio tower in USA.
> 
> 
> USA is a country ruled by lawyers andinsurance company. That put some
restrictions on what you dare to do as you most likely will get sued if
somebody feels they can get hurt or have some other "economic impact".
Lately we have also seen an influence of what iscommonly called “tree
huggers”, people that have an urge to stopanything that remotely can be
called “development” in the name of“saving the earth and the nature”.
> 
> 
> During my time in Sweden (I moved toUSA 30 years ago) I erected many
antennas and whatever you needed to“get the signal out”. Nobody even
bothered to say anything unlessit disturbed their TV reception to an
intolerable level.
> 
> 
> When I came here, neighbors neverbothered me with my radio 
> experiments. I lived then in Brooklyn, NY.I still have a 30 foot mast 
> on my roof there. (It's “grand-fathered”to stay there.)
> 
> 
> A few years ago I decided to erect a 85 foot towerin Vermont. I
experienced a strong resistance from neighbors thatdidn't want “their
horizon be disturbed by technology”. 1 ½ yearlater I had my permit. “My town
hadn't discovered the power orrequesting a professional engineering
evaluation or it would have costme a lot more than the application fee.
> 
> 
> As you can see from the responses atTT, USA is a stronghold for
bureaucrats and "tree huggers" that know how to make life aroller-coaster
ride. Do what you can to keep they out of Finland. Youmanage to push out
both Swedes and Russians in the past. Keep up thegood work.
> 
> 
> 73 de,
> 
> 
> Hans – N2JFS/SM6BXX
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markku Oksanen <markku.a.oksanen at kolumbus.fi>
> To: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>; Markku Oksanen 
> <markku.a.oksanen at kolumbus.fi>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 5:24 am
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower regulations for home brew towers in the US?
> 
> 
> All
> Just because I am curious:
> Here at OH-land even large towers can be home brew just like my 160 
> and 145 foot rotating towers.These have been made by a private small 
> company that made perhaps 200 towers through the years.Building permit 
> and zoning never questioned the "engineering" of the towers as the 
> responsibility in the end rests with the owner.In addition, home owner 
> insurance happily includes towers and covers damage without question.
> How is the situation in the US?  Looks like most towers are commercial 
> (Rohn, couple others) and it seems that a "professional engineer" 
> (correct??) needs to look at the mechanics of the whole thing in order 
> to get a permit to put up a tower.
> So, how, if at all, is it possible to build your own large towers?  
> Does anybody do this?
> The towers I have are 1.5 feet a side with 2 inch tubes, inverted U 
> (0.7 inch) "cross bars".  Only guyed at two levels and full of 
> aluminium, 8000 lb steel guy wires and ball bearing guy rings.  And 
> they have survived some crazy storm too in the past 15 years.
> MarkkuOH2RA/OG2A/WW1C 		 	   		  
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