Subject: FCC Measures on Lookout Mtn. Confirm over limits (fwd)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 171345 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:12:28 -0600
From: Deb Carney
To: "Beavers, Roy" ,
Subject: FCC Measures on Lookout Mtn. Confirm over limits
Here is information on the Lookout Mountain Antenna Farm from 1 of our
residents on the Antenna Tower Committee
Tuesday 9/l/98
To: CARE Antenna Tower Committee
From: Carole Lomond
Re: FCC response to our petition to deny licensing
While I was vacationing in Telluride 8/26-30, the FCC had a consultant
conduct EMR measurements on Lookout Mountain and found the broadcasters
to be out of compliance with standards. I visited Rebecca Willman, FCC
Compliance Specialist, at the Lakewood CO office today. She says our
8/25/98 petition will gain full consideration in Washington. It will
have a docket number for anyone to reply to and a hearing date will be
set. ALL LICENSE APPLICATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL TRANSMITTER INSTALLATION
ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN ARE DETAINED until the FCC commissioners rule on our
petition.
After we gain more information from the FCC in Washington, D.C.(docket #
and date.), we could invite other concerned citizen groups to send their
comments to the FCC. Some may wish to travel to Washington, D.C. and
testify. I personally look forward to providing written and personal
testimony for the national public record. Our elected representatives
and the FCC need a more realistic understanding of the consequences for
many communities caused by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. They
apparently do not understand that, when it comes to antenna tower sites,
one size does not fit all. Antenna farms are industrial use of land
that must, be distanced by many miles from residential areas.
Also while I was away, Al Hislop and Ron Larson were, conducting some
measures around Cedar Lake Road on Sunday, Aug 30. The two KCNC
engineers who live next to the tower followed them around and were
extremely intimidating to a degree of "harassment." I have had several
phone contacts with other engineers who say the broadcasters are
extremely upset by our petition. Al & Ron, and the FCC surveys,
indicate the broadcast license applications included false and/or-
misleading measurements-which could cost them heavy fines and future
distrust of all their data. Rumors say they are looking around for
alternative DTV tower sites!
Meanwhile, back at the Taj Mahal, the same game that caused this heavy
industrial use of residential land continues. There has been no
follow-up to the 9 zoning violations I personally (and politely) showed
to Zoning Administrator Mary Bunn on June 25. She seemed sincere in her
desire to notify those antenna owners and land owners but is apparently
not being supported (from the 5th floor-). I recall Tim Carl repeating
several times during the Bear Creek Development hearings for two towers
last year, that BCD was served with a violation notice for raising the
height of the short tower 3 feet without permission. During that same
time period, KMGH raised the height of their tower 5 feet. I reported
it but they were never served.
As I reported in the last issue of Views, past JeffCo Commissioners
deliberately destroyed the visual beauty of Lookout Mountain and
blatantly caused a serious threat to the health, safety, and welfare of
over 500 families. Proof of this irresponsible government policy is
clearly demonstrated by the arrogance of Denver broadcasters. They had
no reason to assume another huge tower and twice the number of high
power broadcast transmitters on Lookout Mountain would be rejected. The
industry does not behave this way in Oregon, Hawaii, Conn., Vermont,
etc. because elected officials there protect citizens from special
interest greed.
By the way, I discovered two weeks ago, that TV transmitters are easily
controlled from anywhere within line-of-site of a microwave device on
the tower connected with the computer system within the transmitter-
building. The Channel 20 engineer controls his transmitter on Mt.
Morrison from his home beyond Parker. He routinely jeeps to the site
once weekly, but daily travel to the transmitter is not necessary.
I look forward to our next meeting, which I hope is soon!
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html