Edwardsville Intelligencer - Intelligencer Today - 11/19/2005 - Radio tower plan is still up in the air

Edwardsville Intelligencer - Intelligencer Today - 11/19/2005 - Radio tower plan is still up in the air

"Radio tower plan is still up in the air
Norma Mendoza, nmendoza@theintelligencer.com
11/19/2005

The village of Maryville may be rethinking its mandate giving an amateur 'ham' radio operator 15 days to take down his antenna tower after hearing from some other amateur radio operators.

One such ham radio operator is Lawrence Artz, a former state representative in New Hampshire, who notified this reporter, the village, and the Maryville ham operator, that Maryville's village ordinance is in violation of a 1985 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission preempting local ordinances that restrict the operation of amateur radios.

Artz came across the Intelligencer Web site while doing research and found the October story which reported that Zoning Administrator Kevin Flaugher was taking steps to have a ham radio tower taken down.
'It appears Mr. Flaugher doesn't get it,' Artz stated.

In New Hampshire, Artz said, the issue went to the state Supreme Court after a neighbor sued Hudson, N.H., for granting a permit to a ham radio operator in the town. He said the permit was granted because the FCC's PRB-1 required it and also because it had been codified in the law of the state of New Hampshire. "




73 fer nw,
Bob AD5VJ

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