[TowerTalk] Tower Markings

[Gedas]

And just to muddy the water a little more, 10,000 people in what kind of 
area? 20 sq-mi? 50 sq-mi?

Gedas, W8BYA

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On 10/21/2019 4:15 PM, jimlux wrote:
> On 10/21/19 11:52 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
>> What is the FCC definition of a rural area?
>>
>> John KK9A
>
> Probably FAA is what you want.
> One of the presentations by K1VR gives a number like 10,000 people to 
> make it "not rural"
>
>
> The problem they are trying to solve is ag aerial applicators (crop 
> dusters) running into stuff that's hard to see.  So a practical 
> interpretation would be "if you're in an area where they do crop 
> dusting, you're in a rural area"
>
> (mind you, when the Mediterranean fruit fly was a problem in Los 
> Angeles, they sprayed pretty much the entire city with Malathion/bait, 
> and under no stretch of imagination could you call Los Angeles "rural")
>
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>
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>>
>> Gedas w8bya wrote:
>>
>> So my take in looking over the ARRL "readers digest" article & the
>> Dayton presentation where they state:
>>
>> "The new FAA regulations, implemented in the summer of 2019 now require
>> that the only towers less than 200 feet tall that have to be painted and
>> lighted are/meteorological aids and those within the glide slope of an
>> airport or heliport./The remainder of such towers/in rural or
>> agricultural areas lower than 200 feet need to only/be included in
>> an FAA-maintained database, which will be updated by the owners of such
>> towers."
>>
>> Is that I will have to register my 2-3 towers in the FAA database since
>> I live in a rural area (farmland all around me) and the towers are
>> removed away from any buildings etc.
>>
>> Gedas, W8BYA
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