[ICOM] Fwd: HB 2595 Emergency Communications Preservation Act
D C *Mac* Macdonald
k2gkk at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 24 21:49:20 EST 2007
I knew a fellow who started at 30 feet. Every six months to
a year, he would fold the tower over, add a ten foot section,
make an obvious change to the antennas, and raise it back up.
He stopped at 60 feet with no complaints from the neighbors.
The fact that he put a larger antenna array on each time he
added a tower section kept the whole thing in basically the
same proportion as the original antenna/tower combination!
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City, OK
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Ed Yeary" <w4tey at bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Fwd: HB 2595 Emergency Communications Preservation Act
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:43:33 -0500
Now that's what I call good old American ingenuity!!
Ed W4TEY
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Winslow" <larry_w at comcast.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Fwd: HB 2595 Emergency Communications Preservation Act
Please support this.
I lived for 21 years in Tempe (Phoenix is a suburb of Tempe)
and for the last 10 years I had a 55 foot tower - unfortunately
the city of Tempe had a restriction of 30 feet. I spent many
hours discussing this issue with the Temp attorney & his
response was that the city felt 30 feet was a "reasonable
accomodation" - give me a break. I got around it by gradually
cranking the tower up a foot or so over several months. The
city never detected what I was up to
As far as call plates are concerned. I never got
them because the state doesn't know how to put a
slash thru the "0" and with my call, people ask
me why I have "WONFU" for a license plate - both
in Minnesota and now here in Seattle. Barry
Goldwater even volunteered to pay, out of his
pocket, for the die to make this possible but the state turned down his
offer.
73 - Larry WØNFU
larry_w at comcast.net
Seattle
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