[TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site

Fri Aug 14 19:54:12 EDT 2015

"In the old days<:-), probably about when you had your experiences, my 
late boss (a ham), from many, many years ago used 6 meters to get away 
from the CB crowd, BUT 6-meters was not without its hazards. Those were 
the years when 6 was open (Mid to late 60s) and I mean really open.  
There were a number of high power VHF stations and a lot of simple, low 
power stations as in the Heathkit "Lunch boxes".  Dale was out flying 
his RC model when he "lost control" of it.  The plane disappeared behind 
the High School.  When he went around to that side, he spotted the 
wings  "in top of the large green house".  Just the wings.  He was able 
to retrieve the wings, but the "body of evidence" had gone through the 
glass and into the flower and plants inside!  One ham, who was just over 
a mile from that location ran the legal limit on six, CW.  I think he 
may have been on at the time.

73

Roger  (K8RI)

On 8/14/2015 4:28 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
> Intended as mostly humorous mostly off topic digression...
>
> As a young  lad who could only afford really cheap super regen 
> receivers for an RC airplane operating on CB freqs I really hated it 
> when the local sawbones fired up his 27 MHz diathermy machine and 
> forced my hours of work (in constructing the airplane and mopping 
> floors to get the bucks to buy it and the RC equipment) to get to 
> watch it in a vertical spiral dive auger into Terra firma (AKA cumulus 
> dirt.)
>
> Patrick      NJ5G
>
> On 8/14/2015 2:28 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>> Cal-
>>
>> Has anyone taken a good SW receiver to the property with a reasonable HF
>> antenna and listened to the local noise level at different times?
>>
>> Part 15 diathermy machines are said to be the worst RFI generators.
>> Theoretically you can force the Part 15 user to stop using it if it 
>> causes
>> interference to your licensed system, but have fun convincing a 
>> doctor or
>> dentist to turn off their revenue generator!
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve
>> N6SJ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Al
>> Kozakiewicz
>> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:11 AM
>> To: Cal Zethmayr; towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site
>>
>> Local jurisdictions have NO authority to regulate RFI.  That authority
>> belongs exclusively to the federal government.  A zoning change 
>> denial that
>> incorporates potential RFI issues into the decision would not likely 
>> stand
>> judicial scrutiny.
>>
>> Doesn't mean that you're not right to consider the issue yourself, 
>> however.
>> Most non-type accepted electronic equipment is either covered by Part 
>> 15 or
>> not at all.  The latter can be a problem.  I once had a neighbor with a
>> whole house audio system that rather nicely repeated any SSB 
>> transmissions.
>> To the technical minded, it's easy to understand that it wasn't MY fault
>> that his audio amplifier was acting as a receiver; but he could not
>> understand that.
>>
>> Al
>> AB2ZY
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Cal
>> Zethmayr
>> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:59 AM
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site
>>
>> Our North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club (NOARC) is about to purchase a 
>> small
>> (.3 of an acre) piece of land (mortgage company owned) at a very good 
>> price.
>> There is a MD's office about 100 feet from this location and an Dentist
>> office about 300 feet from it.
>> Two of our members have put up the $$ to buy the property.  We got to
>> talking at the after meeting ragchew last night. Every property owner 
>> within
>> 300' of any part of the property will be notified of the public 
>> hearing on
>> the zoning change from R1 to C1.
>>
>>
>> We wonder if either the Doctor or the Dentist might object, saying 
>> our ham
>> stations could interfere with their equipment?
>>
>> Any suggestions about how much interference we might get from any of 
>> their
>> equipment?   Or how much we might do to their equipment.
>>
>> Closing on the property is in about 3 weeks.   We wonder if we should go
>> visit the Dentist (and I know him) and the Doctor to determine what 
>> kind of
>> equipment they have and assure them that our radiation will not 
>> interfere
>> with them.
>>
>> This bargain land may not be a bargain if there are issues with 
>> either the
>> Dentist or the Doctor!
>>
>> We will have a three HF station setup.. all 100W rigs..and a 2 
>> meter//440
>> base station.(Maybe an Amp sometime in the future).  We'll have a 
>> TH11DX, a
>> VHF/UHF non directional, and a 6 meter beam up on a 70' tower. We'll be
>> able to put up a couple of wire antennas, one up to 275' the other 
>> around
>> 100'.
>>
>> Pictures of the property are on our website w4aaz.org
>>
>> comments anyone.
>>
>> Cal Zethmayr
>> W4GMH
>>
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73

Roger (K8RI)

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