[K3CAL] Amateur Radio Towers - We Have It Good

[Richard Terlisner]

The world is full of idiots.  I think CA has one of the highest percentages.



On Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 8:05 PM Shawn Donley via K3CAL <k3cal at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> I ran across this in an email reflector.  It's about the travails of a
> California ham getting the OK to put up a tower.  OBTW...I've seen even
> worse from other hams in other locations.
>
> In comparison, we have it good here in Calvert
>
> --------------------------------------------
> "I live in unincorporated San Mateo County between San Francisco and San
> Jose. We are in a Timber Preserve Zone, where routine timber harvesting is
> the "highest use of the land". To put up my crank-up tower, I first had to
> convince the Planner this was not a cell tower. Then verify there were no
> Marbled Murletts or Red-Legged frogs that might be displaced. (I like to
> joke that Marbled Murletts go great with Hollandaise Sauce!) The local
> gopher snakes take care of the frogs. Then had to come up with a mitigation
> plan for the new water runoff that would be created by my tower's concrete
> foundation's roughly 100 square feet of impermeable surface. I convinced
> them the pile of branches from the Doug fir tree I removed (per our Timber
> Harvesting Plan) would break up the erosive water flow from the foundation
> runoff. And finally I had to promise the crank-up would be nested whenever
> I wasn't actually transmitting. Besides dealing with Mother Nature, we also
> have to deal with the Bureaucracy!"
> 73,
> Steve
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