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

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

On 2/21/2014 2:00 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 2/21/14 9:36 AM, David Robbins wrote:
>> 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.
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> Solar arrays are new enough that they're unfamiliar and have a lot of 
> special issues (firefighter safety.. they're always generating power, 
> even on cloudy days).

Our township put in a moratorium on solar arrays after one was put in 
that was blinding to the neighbors. If the panels are properly aligned 
in a fixed orientation the reflection would only happen for a few 
minutes, for a few days.  If the track the sun accurately in asmuth and 
elevation, they should not be a problem at all.

Often a single, poorly planned and implemented system can cause problems 
for legit systems later on.

It's always for a tracking failure to cause problems, but those problems 
seldom last long

73

Roger (K8RI)
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