[NLRS] Places to live in Texas - response

[Jim Froemke]

Hi John. 
"Come on down" to the TX hill country!

We've been living here in Kerrville, TX (+75' F today) for 4 years after
RVing throughout southern US for 5 years searching for a retirement QTH. We
lived in Austin (TX) for 7 years and got to know both the TX hill county and
the Austin traffic. 
FL is full up, southern CA is too expensive, southern AZ isn't bad if you
don't mind waking up with sand in your teeth, Brownsville-TX is northern
Mexico, Huston-TX is way to humid, DFW-TX is too congested, flat and cold
(in the winter), San Antonio-TX is a great place to visit (but not live
there), Austin-TX is grid-locked while the TX hill country is just right
(depending on your criteria).

The TX hill country is bounded I35 on the East (from San Antonio through
Austin) and then to Lampasas, Llano, Mason, Junction. Uvalde and back to San
Antonio. Within this area are Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Marble Falls,
Dripping Springs, Wimberley, etc. all of which are nice locations. 
The advantages of the TX hill county are weather (relatively warm in the
winter), scenery, cost-of-living, access to medical centers and last but not
least Propagation!
Check out the TX Hill Country links in my rover blog here for more
information: http://k0mhc.blogspot.com/

Let me know if I can answer any of your questions.

See you at Aurora/2011.

73, Jim
K0MHC/R
Kerrville, TX

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:24 PM
To: NLRS Reflector
Subject: [NLRS] Places to live in Texas



It appears that a move to Texas is possibly in my future, sometime between 
July 2011 and Juy 2012. (Nothing firm yet, though.) We are most likely to 
be looking for a place near either San Antonio or Austin, depending on 
where my daughter decides to take a job.

Are there any areas near either of those two metro areas that have elevated 
ground suitable for putting up a tall tower or roving to? I haven't lived 
in Texas for 33 years, and I'm sure a lot of things have changed since 
then, such as expansion of the metro areas further outside of the city 
centers. But I doubt that geography has changed much, and my recollections 
are of intense flatness. I suppose if EVERYTHING around a location is 
really flat, the line of sight horizon is quite a distance away, still I 
feel that higher is better if possible.

Also, any tips on whether cities around there are likely to have severly 
restrictive antenna ordinances? If I make this major move, I would like it 
to be my last one for a long time, and I have waited far too long to put up 
a decent antenna tower. This might be my first (and last) chance to do so.

I hope this isn't considered too far off-topic, but I figured that avid 
radio operators might have good insight into the local conditions down 
there in Texas, and I know that there aree people on this reflector who 
live or have lived down that way...

73 de W0JT
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