I'm forwarding the following E-mail because THE WRITER, W8KT, might head off the deep end and try to make a big stink that this all happened because ARRL (K8QOE and me) walked away from the situation rather than "fighting for his rights." To state the issue succinctly: 1. W8KT sought a building permit to remove his existing tower and erect three to replace it. 2. He received authorization to do this. The maximum height was on the order of 60 ft. 3. He erected three towers as the permit granted; however, a. He located them closer to his property line (neighbor next door) than was agreed. b. He made one tower 90 ft. in spite of the agreed height. 4. His neighbor protested (had been initially) so the building/zoning commission had to inspect the site and, of course, found irregularities. 5. No local attorney (including a local ham) would take his case (he would have lost). W8KT attempted to use PRB-1 as his defense. 6. As expected, W8KT has no defense against his intentional violations of the permit and has been directed to remove all three towers.. Both Joe and I and others (including a couple of Ohio ham attorneys) had advised the fellow his in intentional deviation from the provisions of the Building Permit he be lucky to come out being able to keep the three towers in any form because (PRB-1 allows local governments to dictate such specifics as "safe" locations). We offered advice in attempting to come out keeping the conditions of the initial permit and strongly encouraged him to locate an attorney so he could make the strongest possible argument to keep the towers. MORAL: Don't bite the hand of the scribe who issues building permits (or something such as this). Of course, he blames ARRL for his stupidity. Jim Weaver, K8JE Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL; http://www.arrl.org/ 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: k8je@arrl.org ARRL: The reason Amateur Radio Is! MEMBERS: The reason ARRL Is! -----Original Message----- From: W8KT [mailto:w8kt@q1.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:32 PM To: K8qoe@aol.com; Jim K8JE Subject: Re: No Subject Joe, the village has ordered the removal of my towers. HF operations will cease from my location. The 6 meter, 2 meter, 440 and 900 Mhz repeaters will cease to operate. My wife and I will only be able to use mobile communications from now forward. There will be no more skywarn traffic forwarded from my location There will be no more JOTA activities from my location There will no more new ham classes and elmering from my location I will have the following for sale: Yaesu 1000D Icom 756 Pro Kenwood TS-2000 2-Icom 706MKIIG Icom 910H with 1200 Mhz module 2-Nye-Viking MB-V-A Tuners 2-Amp Supply LK-500ZC Henry 5K 2-Mirage 2 meter 160 watt bricks 2-Mirage UHF 100 watt bricks 2-Micor 1/4KW 6 meter repeaters on 53.11 2-Micor 1/4KW 2 meter repeaters on 145.49 2-Micor 1/4KW UHF repeaters on 443.650 Purc 5000 on 900 Mhz with Maxtrac receiver 2-HP 8901A modulation analyzers with HPIB and cableing to connect to Cat controllers and record frequency and deviation of all repeater transmissions 4-Cat 1000 repeater controllers with DVR 2-Cat WX-1000 weather receivers on 162.400 1 Set of Wacom full size 4 can pass/reject 6 meter cavities 2-Set of TX/RX full size 6 can 2meter pass/reject cavities like new in cabinets 2-Motorola UHF 4 can pass/reject cavities 6-Micor lowband 100 watt mobiles, like new inside 13-Micor High band 100 watt mobiles, like new inside 4-Micor UHF 100 watt mobiles, like new inside At least 40 new in box tubes for 6 meter and 2 meter repeaters 10-New in box 8874 tubes for UHF repeaters WX0B 6-pack antenna switch with 2 controllers, never used 2-Coaxial Dynamics Peak reading watt meter Over 50 Bird slugs from 1 watt to 10KW 2-Yaesu FT-50 with spare batteries 2-Drop in chargers for above 2-Icom T-81 HT's with everything they came with plus batteries 2-TH-F6 HT's new in the box Kenwood THD7a HT with everything as new 40-Polyphaser 100 Mhz to 1000 Mhz arrestors, new in boxes 22-Polyphaser HF arrestors, new in boxes Pirod 10040 100 foot solid rod tower with 40 inch base stripped magnafluxed and hot dip galvanized in 2004 by Voit-Switzer in Columbus Pirod 8090 80 foot hollow leg tower with 90 inch base stripped magnafluxed and hot dip galvanized in 2004 by Voit-Switzer in Columbus Pirod antenna side mounts and cable mounts, new never used Custom bearing and rotor plates for 80 foot tower 240 feet of Rohn 25G 100 feet of Rohn 45G 2-Pirod tower bases, each 9 feet square and six feet thick aprox 55,000 pounds of concrete each M2 Orion rotor new in box Yaesu AZ/EL rotor At least 6 tail twister rotors all functioning with like new control boxes Steppir 4 element beam upsice last summer never transmitted on Tennadyne T-12 log antenna new in boxes Mosley TH-6DXX used in nice shape Decibel 4-bay Dipole antenna tuned to 145.49 new last summer never transmitted on Decibel 32-bay dipole antenna tuned to 443.650 new last summer never transmitted on Decibel "Super Station Master" type 22 foot 900 Mhz antenna new last summer never transmitted on Several Decibel low band 1/4 wave heavy duty antennas some tuned to six meters 2-KLM 16 element 2 meter beams 2-KLM 40 element 432 beams 80 element loop antenna for 1200 Mhz 600 feet of Andrew 1 1/4 inch Heliax new on spools 800 feet of Andrew 7/8 inch Heliax new on spools over 1000 feet of Andrew 1/2 inch Heliax new on spools 200 feet of used 1 1/4 inch Heliax 375 feet of used 7/8" Heliax 500 feet plus used 1/2" Heliax Hundreds of Andrew Heliax connectors Andrew snap-in clamps for Heliax, all sizes Remaining subscription to QST magazine forwarded free of charge MORE TO COME! An avid Ham? A supporter of ham radio manufacturers? A volunteer? Both hams here skywarn certified, CERT trained, Red Cross volunteers. An ARRL member? NOT ANYMORE! K8qoe@aol.com wrote: Bob Where are you on your little problem? Joe, K8QOE