Cell Tower

[Knight9]

Dave,

We just finished "fighting the good fight" against a local radio company in our area. They wanted to erect a digital radio tower about 2 miles from our place. It was going to be over 1400 feet tall (yup...both zeros are correct!) making it the tallest structure for many provinces. They were hoping to put up the tower for their radio stations and then once it was up co-locate a bunch of television stations onto the tower.

The only way we ended up defeating it...and it is defeated....was by having a small local airport come out against it as a safety hazard to the small planes. A portion of it would actually penetrate into their airspace. The county and the company were not interested in hearing about country living, star gazing, birds, aesthetics or common sense. I think all they heard was $$$$ talking to them.

Stick to your guns and keep up the fight. You never know!!!

Kevin

 

[DUMBDOG]

It is really to bad that this farmer did not do some better planning considering how his daughters turned out. You would think that they would be more considerate to their parents. He is probably sorry that he gave the land to the kids and wish he would have just sold it off and lived off the proceeds.

 

[Hydraman]

Exactly why I am going to spend my Kids' inheritance!!!!!

 

[mwechtal]

Just a suggestion, at the very least, try to get them to put on a red flashing beacon. We had a tower (not cell) go up about 1/2 a mile from us, and the white strobe would keep us up at night. We had to get blackout shades, and keep them closed in the summer. One evening when it was foggy, someone stopped me when I went out for the mail, and asked what that was. It was obvious that the guy was scared senseless, and he thought it was aliens landing! They finally replaced it with a normal incandescant flashing red beacon, and it's not a problem. (Someone was shooting it out every few weeks) The reason that they like to use the strobe lights is that they don't have to paint the tower red and white. That seems like a small thing, but try to hire someone to paint a tower, and see how much it costs!
Mike

 

[Robert_in_NY]

What the tower companies do around here is have both lights on the tower. When it starts to get dark it goes the the red lights. During the day it is the white strobe lights. No one complains anymore.

 

[BigDave]

I really hope it will be red at night, but I didn't ask that question...yet. We had a white strobe on a tower about a half mile away from us when we were in Texas. I hated that thing. I suspect it was white strobe because we were near an airport...and YES, the light was far more annoying than the airplanes!!! They only flew near our home in the middle of the night when we were sleeping, so we would only notice the sound if we were having a very late night.

 

[mwechtal]

Robert,
That's probably a white strobe with a red filter that moves to cover the light at night.

In our case, they put up a plain flashing red light. Supposedly they now have to paint the tower, but since it's the county they haven't bothered yet.

Mike

 

[GaryM]

It's my understanding that if they don't want to paint the tower in red and white sections, they need a daylight strobe. A red beacon is satisfactory at night. I've seen some towers running the strobs day and night. There are some TALL towers just North of Nashville TN along side I-24. Most have red lights at night, but at least one has night strobes.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

No, there are two seperate lights along the tower. The strobes flash while the red lights glow slowly on and off.

 

[tdenny]

I'd like some too.