OT - Ham Radio Towers

[Lyle Tuttle]

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.

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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