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My station has three towers which support and are planned to support antennas covering 160 meters through 24 GHz. At present there are only antennas on one of the three towers. This is the South tower and has antennas for 20 through 10 meters and 2 meters.

Here is a photo of the South tower before  and after antennas were put up.

KB1PZ installing the T-12 Log Periodic Array.

The South tower with shunt feed installed.

The Northeast tower with the 4 element 40 meter beam, slopers and inverted vee.

The Northwest tower with the 4 element 15 meter beam and KT-34 at 45 feet.

The 80 meter vertical test bed for the four square.

One of my neighbors decided that she did not like what I was doing, and although she was not affected in any way, she took the town to court over my antennas. She has ended up costing the town what must be over 20 thousand dollars and me about the same because she did not like to see this from her house:

The above photo has the complete South tower (87 feet of Rohn 45) with a 12 element Log Periodic for 14-33 MHz, and two stacked 18 element 144 MHz yagis. They are slightly to the right of the center of the photo just behind the largest tree. Although they are taller than the tree, because of the geometry (the photo is looking up the hill and the tree is about 50 feet closer, it appears taller than the tower.

Here is another perspective of the tower taken from up the street. Again the tower is taller than the trees, but the perspective makes the trees appear taller.

Imagine how this would look without the trees!

Hard to believe that Mr. Doug Finn, the occupant of 10 St. Anthony said this:

"1)       I personally do not care about the trees being further cut or not.  The destruction to the trees surrounding  the South Tower can not be replaced and further obliteration of the trees to have lower towers to 68’ would be something I would accept.  I see the South Tower all the time.  Remember all the great pictures Suzanne takes of your towers?  They are from my front porch! "

"2)       Movement of the South Tower elsewhere on your property ( 180 degrees) to the opposite side could be entertained.  I’m sure my neighbors on Burns Hill would not be happy unless they could not see the tower.. Possible placement of the South Tower within 25’ of your home?"

"3)       I’m against 100’ towers.  I can see your towers at the present height from Rte 3 and the Sagamore Bridge off Exit 22. Towers must be below the present tree heights. This is non-negotiable. "

"4)       I am an EE and studied Ham Radio concepts but did not get a license. I know all the arguments pro and con about Tower Heights and radio interference. Luckily I don’t watch TV at all so I personally don’t care.  But the neighbors will."

"5)       You will not convince me that your needs and desires to set up a competition station according to your current plans outweighs my needs and desires to maintain this neighborhood’s character and the value of my home."

Note that while he has no problem if I cut down the trees, he requires that the towers be lower than the trees. Thanks to the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the Hudson Zoning Board extensive tree cutting will not be required and the aesthetics of the neighborhood are preserved.

Another interesting point is that the character of their housing development is such that it reduced the value of our home by over half (according to my real estate appraisal). My home is on a 6 acre wooded plot and the adjacent housing development contains starter homes on 1/2 acre plots.

A great city: Originally FrontPage had a photo of some generic city. I've replaced this with a reduced resolution scan of one of my photographs. This is Boston from Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is for sale on our other web site, http://www.j-kphotography.com. More information on this photograph and information on how to purchase it is there.