[BC] How close is too close?...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Mark,

I assume from the comment that your antenna is on the top of the 
tower that you are a FM station.  I would also be concerned about RFI 
into all types of electronic devices typically found in a home.  FM 
is much more difficult to deal with than AM interference.

Burt

At 07:49 AM 1/20/2006, you wrote:
>From: Mark Bulla <mbulla at wnuv.sbgnet.com>
>Subject: [BC] How close is too close?
>To: Broadcast at radiolists.net
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>Toward the end of last year, the land around the tower from which I
>transmit must have changed hands because they started building apartment
>buildings and/or townhouses on it.  The buildings weren't particularly
>close to the tower - that is until a couple of weeks ago.  They started
>putting up a building that is right around 300 feet from the base of the
>968 foot tower.  It's not my tower, but my antenna is the one on the top.
>
>Being in Maryland, we have had occasions where pretty nice sized chunks
>of ice have fallen from the tower, and I'm concerned that some day we're
>going to end up getting sued for damage to the building and cars, or for
>someone getting killed by a chunk of ice (or for the 5 MW of RF power
>causing birth defects in someone's baby (yeah, I know that they are in a
>pretty low RF area, right below the tower, but a jury might not
>understand that...)).  I've been half-thinking of putting up a "rent/buy
>at your own risk, falling ice danger and high power RF in area" sign on
>the transmitter building so that people will see it out of their back
>window when they are looking at the apartments.
>
>Anyone else have the same sort of issue?  Should I be concerned?
>
>Mark
>--
>Mark D. Bulla - Chief Engineer

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