You know better than I who should be aware of this.....this just came
in:
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FYI:
At the request of the Mayor, the City Manager investigated the need for
regulating Ham Radio and reported that there was no need and that the
existing regulations were sufficient
http://www.glendaleaz.com/clerk/agendasandminutes/Workshops/Agendas/060110-W01.pdf
. At the City Council meeting there was no support for this but for some
unknown reason it is (reportedly) being pushed by Mayor Scruggs and Vice
Mayor Steve Frate.
Glendale is proposing some new zoning ordinance wording. This
wording is not Amateur friendly. Part of it states: zta09-01 Section
7.301.A.6. Maximum height of an amateur radio tower is seventy-five (75)
feet.
All antennas must be
retractable when not in use. Maximum height, when retracted is
limited to the following:
a. Twenty (20) feet in
the A-1, RR-90, RR-45, SR-35, SR-17, and SR-12 zoning districts.
b. Fifteen (15) feet in
all other zoning districts.
c. One antenna is
permitted for each license issued by the FCC to the property.
The verbiage can be
read at
http://www.glendaleaz.com/planning/documents/ZTA09-01ForWebDraftText042011.pdf
We can find no manufacturer who can supply a retractable tower
meeting the requirements listed above and the retractable towers that are
available are extremely expensive. And the "one antenna"
provision requires an antenna the is theoretically impossible.
This is part of the Zoning Ordinance Update that is scheduled for a
Planning Commission meeting on June 2nd."
At 04:13 PM 5/25/2011, Eric Cope wrote:
I've heard they are organizing
with the ARRL. If interested in getting involved, I can forward your
contact info to the MCECG (Maricopa County Emergency Communications
Group) who is plugged into the effort...
Eric
<flame_war>Who is surprised that Glendale of all local
municipalities is starting this?</flame_war>
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Lyle Tuttle
<l.tuttle@cox.net>
wrote:
- If I recall correctly, several of the members on this board a ham
radio operators.
- If so, you might be interested in this info passed to me by a
friend:
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- I'm working with some ham radio operators who are very upset with
proposed changes supported by The Glendale mayor and another Glendale
official that will tie the hands of ham radio operators within the city
of Glendale. The April 2010 staff report says these new regs aren't
necessary.
- However, someone has gotten new regs onto the June 2 city council
agenda that Glendale ham operators must have specified retractable
antennas that the guys can't even find on the marketplace.
- I fully understand why people don't want an ugly 75' or more tower in
their neighbors backyard even tho my neighbors had them in N. Phx and
never offended me. I was always glad they were there. Â
- People needs to realize that when disaster strikes and communications
systems ( phones, computers, electric, etc) go down, it is the ham
operators that provide the emergency communications. I’ve also been
with Kent on several cross country trips when those guys are
communicating emergency messages, i.e. tornado & flood alerts,
highway accidents etc to authorities where cell phones or CB’s don't
work.
- If this Glendale idea spreads across Maricopa County, we are in deep
CENSORED if terrorists knock out our normal communications systems. Take
a look at the Midwest the past 2 days when communications systems were
temporarily down after those tornadoes whipped out communities. It was
the ham radio operators that filled that gap, but few people even know
it.
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