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Old 12-24-2010, 08:53 AM   #5
wa8yxm
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I will join the chorus here too. You ask if it is OK to put ham antennas on a commercial tower... Most every repeater from the Pacific to the Atlantic is so mounted. There is no problem at all.

If they give you free internet and tower space in exchange for letting them put the tower on your land.. and they do not also give you $$$$$.. You are the sucker in this deal.

NOTE: I do recall reading somewhere, a long time ago, about the restriction that the ham antenna not be the TOP MOST antenna.. but please do not take my word for that.. Grab your handy dandy copy of the FCC rules and re-read it.. For one thing it has been so long since I read that and the rules have changed so many times that it may now be "history"

But side mounting.. That's ok

That said I put MY 2-mtr beam on top on my house.. Nobody ever complained..
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