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Homeowner has installed a very tall tower (over a 100 feet tall) used to broadcast FM radio. Is this even allowed in a residential area? Why weren't residents notified and allowed to prevent this safety hazard from being erected?
Homeowner has installed a very tall tower (over a 100 feet tall) used to broadcast FM radio. Is this even allowed in a residential area? Why weren't residents notified and allowed to prevent this safety hazard from being erected?
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Baylink (Rehistradong User)
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Goobenet (Panauhin)
The health issues? What health issues? FM broadcasters are required to do an MPE study prior to turning on and proving that there's no health risk to anyone nearby. Non-Ionizing radiation 100ft up, from 100w ERP of power in the broadcast band is no worse than having your cell phone next to your head on the nightstand every night. If he is found to be causing "health risks" via the emissions, then he is required to fix the problem and shut down. But you will find using the EPA methodology that this will not be the case.
Now, as for land use permits, you might want to check with the city to see if he has a permit for such a structure. Also, towers are made to fall within their footprint, not straight over, it's not like a tree that would come tumbling down on your house 100ft away, chances are that IF (and that's a big if) it fell, it would fall onto his house, and within the confines of his property typically.
The tower is under 200ft, it does not require an FAA study, it falls into the same area as ham radio towers and TV antennas. Exception being if he's within the glide/approach path of an airport.
And also as mentioned, the Feds will trump local government. What has been brought up here is akin to saying "I don't like the trellis in your garden because it's 30ft tall and takes up your whole yard, i'm telling!".... It means nothing.
I've been doing broadcast engineering for 15 years. This is the voice of experience, but I am not a lawyer and none of the above should be considered legal counsel.
Skipper T. Spence (Panauhin)
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neighbor (Panauhin)
Skipper T. Spence (Panauhin)
Baylink (Rehistradong User)
The tower in question, too, was an existing structure, with ham radio antennas in active use on it, and it likely covered by the PRB-1 exemption to local zoning embodied in that regulation.
Since the tower has clearly been there for some time, I wonder whether the reporter has just moved in.
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