How about these beans.
One of responsibilities of Amateur (Ham) radio operators is to assist with communications in Local, State and National emergencies. In order to do that, the Federal Government allows operators to construct necessary antennas and support systems for them.
Recently, a licensed ham who lives in a deed restricted community applied for a permit to erect a 50 foot tower for his antenna. His application was denied.
He erected the tower anyway. The governing body sought legal action to have him remove it. Turns out that local law ordinance or restriction never supercedes federal authority. It appears that hams have the federal authority to construct such towers as long as they don't exceed the guidelines set down by the FCC. Those guidlines only limit the height.
Think about it for a minute. What if there were a disaster in or around the Villages and the hams were not able to meet their obligation for assistance because they were forbidden to have such towers, unsightly as some think they are.
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