In a message dated 9/26/04 2:26:14 AM Greenwich Standard Time,
k5uj@hotmail.com writes:
my advice Mike,
put up every tower and antenna you are ever going to want to put up now
while you still can.
Excellent advice. My 200 footers have been up about 6 or 7 years. All
hassles from the county ended in 1998. All had been quiet until some nitwit
moved on a lot adjacent to mine. He bought the lot knowing ahead of time the
towers were there.
Several months after he moved in he complained to the county, with the usual
shopping list of complaints....ruins the view, dangerous, why so big, used
for commercial and so forth. Obviously, the guy had some connections, because
the county code violations people came trotting out (the same people who
check for junk cars and illegal fences). They informed me I would need to
take
the towers down. My response was as you would expect. I told them I had
fought this battle with the county six years ago and the county had agreed
there
was no problem with the towers. They said they would check and let me know.
A week later, the inspector called and told me, not only were they
dismissing the complaint, but would tell anyone who called in the future that
there
was no problem.
I am still amazed that the guy who moved in next to the towers would have
the brass to complain, but the story had a happy ending. Had I put up the
towers with this guy as a neighbor, I think I would have had more harassment
when
erecting them.
Moral......put them up now. You may not have a chance, later. Back to
watching my antennas swinging around in the hurricane...so far, so good with
Jeanne.
Bill K4XS
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