[TowerTalk] cell phone antenna on ham tower?

[n4zkf]

I am in this business. This is what I do. Gene and Bud are correct.
(although the balloon gets me?) Also don't forget the taxes are going up.


73 Dave n4zkf
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On 10/27/15 7:12 PM, "Gene Smar" <ersmar at verizon.net> wrote:

>Donna:
>
>     On the other side (the carrier's) of the coin, they'll probably want
>24-hour access and a commercial power source as heavy as, or heavier
>than, your home's, plus a BAG (.... Generator.)    Your insurance agent
>may want an increased premium for the commercial operation on your
>property.  
>
>     I've driven past cell towers on private property around here (DC
>area) but they were on large farms away from population centers.
>
>     Caveat Amateur.
>
>
>73/88 de
>Gene Smar  AD3F
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>W2RU - Bud Hippisley
>Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 6:42 PM
>To: tower <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] cell phone antenna on ham tower?
>
>Donna ‹
>
>Please let me expand on Jim¹s very important comment.
>
>I spent six+ years looking into antenna zoning restrictions in my search
>for a new QTH.  In general ‹ and this may not be true in your locality
>but it was / is true in by far the majority of municipalities I
>investigated ‹ amateur radio towers may be preferentially treated only as
>long as there is no commercial use co-located on the tower.
>
>Once there is a commercial application on your tower, it becomes subject
>to what are usually far more restrictive paragraphs in the local zoning
>ordinance.  You may, for instance, be required to have public hearings
>when you weren¹t required to for a ham tower.  You may have to fly a
>brightly marked balloon, where previously you weren¹t.  And so on.  And
>it gets worse Š and worse Š and worse.
>
>In short, you most likely will lose any protections you might think you
>have under PRB-1.
>
>Unless you live in a municipality that has no zoning at all ‹ and no
>restrictions at all on cell towers ‹ I don¹t even recommend ³proceed[ing]
>with caution² ‹ I recommend not proceeding at all!
>
>Bud, W2RU
>
>
>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:41 47PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
>>wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue,10/27/2015 1:02 PM, ag6v at whidbey.com wrote:
>>> I'm sure some of you have an opinion/experience with cell phone
>>>antennas
>> 
>> No experience, but caution -- beware of zoning issues that apply to
>>commercial installations as opposed to ham towers.
>> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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